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Excerpt from Stephen Decatur I have, therefore, freely drawn upon all available sources of information, including many manuscripts, letters, and other inter esting matter in the possession of his de scendants and in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I flatefully ao knowledge my indebtedness to Mrs. Edward Shippen and Mrs. F. 0. Getchell, of Phila delphia, grand-nieces of the great com modore, and to Mr. Edward Shippen, for much valuable information (hitherto un published) concerning the genealogy and early history of the Decatur family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
