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Mount Pleasant was built in 1825 by Doctor John Thompson Veasey, known as “of Mount Harmon,” who, with Colonel Thomas Ward Veasey, assisted in the defense of Duffy’s Fort in 1813. He was a greatnephew of George Ross, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. His son, Thomas Brocus Veasey, was captured and shot by Cubans during the Lopez Expedition in 1851.
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