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JOHN PAUL JONES
CHAPTER I
BORN 1747 EARLY DAYS DIED 1792
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In the year 1758 a little trading vessel called the Friendship sailed out of the harbor of Whitehaven, in England, and turned her prow in the direction of the good colony of Virginia. Among the crew was a little boy, who had been lately bound apprentice to the ship’s owner. Full of life, and overjoyed with expectations of the wonderful continent of the West, he ran about the vessel doing odd jobs, making himself useful in
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