Samuel Taft was born September 23, 1735 at Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, and died in 1816 at Uxbridge Worcester County, Massachusetts, in his 80th year. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who later hosted his former commander in Chief, President George Washington, on his innuagural tour of New England.
Read more about Samuel Taft: Early Life, Service in Revolutionary War, A Famous Visitor, Samuel Taft House, A Famous Family, Death
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“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
—Anonymous. quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Feb. 1776 (1791)
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