of 95, he was 151 years old when he died last, in 1864.
But his age did not keep pace with his recollections.
When he died the last time, he distinctly remembered
the landing of the Pilgrims, which took place in 1620.
He must have been about twenty years old when he
witnessed that event, wherefore it is safe to assert
that the body-servant of General Washington was in
the neighborhood of two hundred and sixty or seventy
years old when he departed this life finally.

Having waited a proper length of time, to see if the
subject of this sketch had gone from us reliably and
irrevocably, I now publish his biography with con-
fidence, and respectfully offer it to a mourning
nation.

P. S.--I see by the papers that this infamous old
fraud has just died again, in Arkansas. This makes
six times that he is known to have died, and always
in a new place. The death of Washington's body-
servant has ceased to be a novelty; its charm is gone;
the people are tired of it; let it cease. This well-
meaning but misguided negro has now put six differ-
ent communities to the expense of burying him in
state, and has swindled tens of thousands of people
into following him to the grave under the delusion
that a select and peculiar distinction was being con-
ferred upon them. Let him stay buried for good
now; and let that newspaper suffer the severest
censure that shall ever, in all future time, publish to
the world that General Washington's favorite colored
body-servant has died again.

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