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In Memory
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Capt Tobias Lear
obt Novr 6th 1781
Æt. 45
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Tobias Lear (IV) was father to Tobias Lear (V), who was personal secretary to President George Washington.
Read more about him here.
He was also consul to Saint Domingue.
Book: The Checkered Career of Tobias Lear by Ray Brighton
The Will of George Washington, Introduction and Editorial Note, with some interesting notes about Tobias Lear.
His home is now a museum. For more information about visiting this home, click here.
Tobias died by his own hand in Washington D.C. in 1816.
Read a letter from George Washington to Tobias Lear from 1790.
See a letter written by Tobias Lear to Eliphalet Fitch in 1790.
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