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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I must say...

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I must say they regard the Sabbath and attend preaching, for there are churches of every denomination and able ministers of the gospel.

Source: Describing Washington, DC in a 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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