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Adams' family was not in the shipping trade, but he had clients as a lawyer who undoubtedly were and his compatriot John Hancock had a fleet of ships that he used for his business.
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Marine City, situated at the convergence of the St. Clair and Belle Rivers, was, in the years before
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