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Just north stood a classical school conducted by the Rev. James Maury, rector of Fredericksville Parish from 1754 to 1769. Thomas Jefferson was among Maury’s students, and Matthew Fontaine Maury, known as the “Pathfinder of the Seas,” was Maury’s grandson.
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