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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: Believe me, this...

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Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand here.

Source: Letter to friend; in Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic, by Geraldine Brooks, 1901.
-- Rachel Donaldson Jackson, (Jun 15 1767-1828), US first lady; She caused a scandal when she married Andrew Jackson before divorcing her first husband, Lewis Robards.


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