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2757. ESTAING (Count d'), Land-grant to.—

The State of Georgia has given twenty
thousand acres of land to the Count d'Estaing.
This gift is considered here [France] as very
honorable to him, and it has gratified him much.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. i, 533. Ford ed., iv, 195.
(P. 1786)