Wednesday, May 15, 2013

A long-lived life at Riversdale near Bladensburg - 120 years old in 1810


LONGEVITY

               Died on Sunday, the 120th instant. at the plantation of George Calvert, Esw. Prince George's county, negro JACK, in the 120th year of his age. - He retained every faculty in a remarkable degree to the last. [1]

Riversdale
Riverdale Park, Maryland 20737


[1] Federal Republican & Commercial Gazette; Date: 05-28-1810; Volume: II; Issue: 201; Page: [3]; Location: Baltimore, Maryland.
Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, May 15th, 2013. 

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