Death report of a "free black woman"...
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston Oct. 18, 1797 Taking three front page columns is: "A List Of Prizes in Gloucester Road Lottery. Class Fourth."
Listed among the page 3 obituaries is one reporting the death of "...a free black woman named Venus Watkins..." at New-Providence. It mentions that: "...from a variety of circumstances she must have reached the great age of 120."
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