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Decatur, Stephen

naval officer, was born Jan. 5, 1779, in Sinneputent, Md.

He entered the navy at the age of nineteen, and rose to the rank of commodore. He died in 1820.

DE CHARMS, RICHARD, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 17, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Swedenborgian clergyman of Baltimore and New York city; and the author of Freedom and Slavery in the Light of the New Jerusalem; The New Churchman Extra; and Lectures at Charlestown. He died March 20, 1864.

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