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Colonial Williamsburg Journal

Title Seating for Seven
Issue Volume 36, Number 03 (CWJ, Summer 2014)
Description The author imagines a guest list of 18th c. luminaries for Thomas Jefferson's dinner table that would compare to that of JFK's assembled invitees described by him as exceeding "when Thomas Jefferson dined alone"--astronomer Caroline Herschel, NY-born attorney William Livingston, minister-scientist Stephen Hales, prison reformer John Howard, revolutionary patriot/heroine Sybil Ludington, and black poet Phyllis Wheatley.
Author Breig, James
Pages 53-58