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in 1825, he originated and drew up the plan for slave emancipation, including the deportation of all freed slaves out of the United States and financial compensation to slaveholders, which was recommended at that time to
Congress for adoption. He was one of the leading public critics of the
274:, who in his retirement at Quincy had taken interest in the anti-Masonic movement. In these letters, which were afterward collected and published (New York, 1832), the author maintained that Masonry should be abandoned, chiefly because it had lost its usefulness.
92:, in 1808, where he assisted his father in the care of a farm. The country was at that time a wilderness, and the adventures of young Stone during his early pioneer life formed material that he afterward wrought into border tales.
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in the spring of 1841. He also, as one biographer put it, "cleared away the mists of slander that had gathered around the name of De Witt
Clinton, and by preserving strict impartiality he secured that credence which no
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for the recovery of such papers and documents as were essential to a correct understanding of the colonial history of the state. This was the origin of the collection known as the
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directing a memorial to be addressed to the New York legislature praying for the appointment of an historical mission to the governments of
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His father, William, was a soldier of the
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Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, Lewis Tappan and the
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in the public schools. He was active in religious enterprises and furthering benevolent associations for the
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and others in favor of "immediate emancipation" and has been called one of the principal fomenters of the
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Although the influence of
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on a trip up the Hudson River on the steam boat James Kent during
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on "the evils of the use of tobacco." He was noted for investigating the claims of
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Life of Thurlow Weed including his autobiography and a memoir
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History of the Great Albany Constitutional Convention of 1821
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The vision of Rubeta, an epic of the island of Manhattan
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Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
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113:as his journeyman. Subsequently, he edited the
423:Narrative of the Grand Erie Canal Celebration
470:Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu
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360:Colonel Stone was appointed a chief of the
342:argument could obtain, however ingenious."
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753:"Mrs. William Leete Stone Sr. (1798–1852)"
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166:as editor of the New York
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66:Saratoga Springs, New York
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201:Commercial Advertiser
178:Commercial Advertiser
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162:In 1821 he succeeded
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303:juvenile delinquents
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193:abolition of slavery
143:(afterward bishop),
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