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 left a vast sum, large tracts of land, and two hun-dred bond folks, or slaves, to the young mother and child, the two Mar-thas.

SIGNING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

Thom-as Jef-fer-son was sent to Con-gress and soon came to be a great man. The "Dec-la-ra-tion of In-de-pen-dence" was, for the most part, his work. This sole thing would have brought fame to him if that had been all that he did for his land. Soon he had work to do for his own State, and it was his strong wish that her laws and rules should be such as would help folks in all ways. So