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From "Salem Gazette," 1811. Appropriate name for a
rope-maker.

Mr. WILLIAM TARRING, rope-maker, 38.

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"Massachusetts Mercury," Dec. 27, 1799.

Died,

At _Hamilton, Essex_ County, PLATO WHIPPLE, aged 103, one of
God's images in ebony.

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"Salem Gazette," 1811.

Mr. JACK DALAND, a very worthy black man, aged 65. He was
brought from Africa to the West Indies at about 11 years of
age; but instead of being _eaten_, as he expected, by the
white men, he was transferred by purchase to a happy asylum
in this place, where he has spent upwards of 50 years of his
life, respected by the whole town, as a faithful,
industrious, pleasant-tempered, intelligent man. His honest
industry was rewarded by the acquisition of a comfortable
property, which he has left for the enjoyment of his family.
The long train of white people who followed his remains to
the grave, testify to the esteem in which he was held.

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The following is a notice of a "distinguished merchant" and "literary"
character of Newburyport, Mass. In the appendix to "Lord" Dexter's great
production--where all the stops are placed together on the last page,
so that "people can salt and pepper as they please"--we find these
lines:

"All men inquire, but few can tell
How thou in Science doth excel!"

TIMOTHY DEXTER. The subject of the present sketch, according
to his own account, was born in Malden, Massachusetts. "I
was born," says he (in his celebrated work, "A Pickle for
the knowing ones"), "1747, Jan. 22; on this day in the
morning, a great snow storm in the signs of the seventh
house; whilst Mars came forward Jupiter stood by to hold the
candle. I was to be a great man."

Lord Dexter, after having served an apprenticeship to a
Leather dresser, commenced business in Newburyport, where he
married a widow who owned a house and a small piece of land,
part of which, soon after the nuptials, were converted into
a shop and tanyard.

By application to his business his property increased, and
the purchase of a large tract of land near Penobscot,
together with an interest which he bought in the Ohio
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