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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Patience Borden - Old North in Providence


Patience Borden
commonly called Sterry
A free woman of colour, and
humble disciple of Jesus,
She gave to the first Baptist
Church in this Town,
of which she was a member,
230 dollars, as a fund for
the relief of the Poor of Colour
of that church;
She died
April 1st 1811,
in the 53rd year of
her age

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