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although he lives with his family in Pennfilvania, 
where he fold the boy to his prefent mader ; of 
which fatfl, I faw the bill of fale that palled between 
the colonel and him. 
The father and mother of this child are pcrfeflly 
black, and were both very young when landed; the 
woman not being above fixteen years old, and her 
liulband not more than fix years older ; and when 
they landed, being afked, how far flie was gone 
with child ? anfwercd, fo as to be underftood to 
mean, that Ihe was with child fomething more than 
fix moons, and that this was her firft pregnancy. 
They alfo declared, that they had never leen a white 
pcrlbn before they came to the fhore where Euro- 
peans were employed in buying black Haves. 
The prefent owner of this boy is Mr. James-Hill- 
Clark, whom I informed of what had pafied be- 
tween Dr. Franklin and myfelf, on Friday morning 
laft on this fubjedf; for I paid him a vifit, and in 
the courfe of our conveiTation he informed me, that 
while he was in England before, he received a letter 
from his lady, in which was fome of the wool of a 
white negro child’s head, by way of curiofity ; and 
when I mentioned it to Mr. Clark, he alfured me 
that this very boy was fhewed in Pennfilvania as a 
great rarity ; and that, to his knowledge, the wool 
lent in the letter was taken from this child’s head. 
He was born about fix or feven weeks after his pa- 
rents landed in Virginia, in the year 1755; and was 
purchafed by Mr. Hill-Clark of colonel Chambers 
in 1764, fo that he appears not to be quite ten years 
old ; and his mother has had two children lince, 
who are both as black as the parents. 
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