My mother had already named her first son after her own brother Charles; and insisted on the second son taking the name of her other brother James, and when I came along, on the 8th of February, 1820, mother having no more brothers, my father succeeded in his original purpose, and named me William Tecumseh. The family rapidly increased till it embraced six boys and five girls, all of whom attained maturity and married; of these six are still living.

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