The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.
Thomas Jefferson: “The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and…”
On the recordDecember 29, 1808
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