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Nathan Dane
was born in Ipswich Massachusetts, 1752 and lived most of his life in
Beverly. He was a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives
in 1782, a Continental Congress delegate in 1785, 1786 and 1787, and a
member of the state Senate in 1790. Dane founded Harvard Law School, now
one of the most prestigious law schools in the world. One of the founders
of the Massachusetts Temperance Society, Dane helped establish ethics
for alcohol in society. Dane was the author of the Northwest Ordinance,
a treaty that the slave free territories of the Northwest of the Ohio
River. This ordinance also set the standards for the requirements of a
territory to become a state.
Lauren Colanto
See also: Nathan Dane Collaborative
