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| | General LaFayette's Visit to Poughkeepsie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | General Lafayette was now sixty-seven years of age, with some physical infirmities, but intellectually strong, in in manners and feeling cheerful, elastic and accomplished. |
 | | Breakfast over, the General was escorted to the landing, amid the firing of cannons, the waving of handkerchiefs, and the cheers from thousands, the steamer proceeded up the river to the then beautiful residence of Governor Morgan Lewis, where the party landed, proceeded to his fine old mansion and partook of a sumptous collation. |
 | | On landing, the General was received by a large body of Free Masons, and was escorted by a military company from Hudson to the beautiful lawn in front of the manor house, where the General was warmly welcomed by the Master of the Lodge in an appropriate speech. |
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