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His father died before he was born and that event which he obviously could not remember actually had a great effect on his childhood, since his mother and he had to depend on relatives for their support. The death of his mother when he was 14 and the loss of his two older brothers in the Revolutionary War plus the harsh treatment he received as a British POW were important events in his childhood .

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