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The Revolution frequently divided families, sometimes turning brother against brother or father against son, but, as this letter indicates, the bonds of affection between Timothy Jr. and Sr. were never broken. “When I look back on past time, I regret our difference of sentiment in great as well as (sometimes) in little politics; as it was a deduction from the happiness otherwise to have been enjoyed,” Timothy wrote his father. “Yet you had always too much regard to freedom in thinking & the rights of conscience to lay upon me any injunctions which could interfere with my own opinion of what was [inserted: my] duty…Often have I thanked my Maker for the greatest blessing of my life-your example & instructions in all the duties I owe to God, and my neighbour.”
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The 1803 Louisiana Purchase, an incredible deal made with France during Thomas Jefferson’s first term as president, doubled the size of the United States. Jefferson’s next step was to learn all about this new territory of the United States. He chose Meriwether Lewis, a former army captain and his own private secretary, to lead the expedition. It was Lewis’s job to pick a command partner and assemble the crew he thought would work the best. Lewis chose another army captain, William Clark, to join him and put together the team. Clark’s exceptional map-making skills proved invaluable, and he kept detailed records throughout the journey.
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The Revolution frequently divided families, sometimes turning brother against brother or father against son, but, as this letter indicates, the bonds of affection between Timothy Jr. and Sr. were never broken. “When I look back on past time, I regret our difference of sentiment in great as well as (sometimes) in little politics; as it was a deduction from the happiness otherwise to have been enjoyed,” Timothy wrote his father. “Yet you had always too much regard to freedom in thinking & the rights of conscience to lay upon me any injunctions which could interfere with my own opinion of what was [inserted: my] duty…Often have I thanked my Maker for the greatest blessing of my life-your example & instructions in all the duties I owe to God, and my neighbour.”
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14 May 08
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