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Believe it or not…

While posting an October 31, 1804 issue of THOMAS’S MASSACHUSETTS SPY, OR WORCESTER GAZETTE [1],  Massachusetts, onto the Rare Newspapers website due to the presence of two letters from George Washington [2] (written before 1800) and another from Thomas Jefferson [3], another item caught our interest.  Under “Deaths” we found an obituary which seems unbelievable.  Which is harder to believe, that newspapers from 1804 containing 3 Presidential letters are still available, or, that the details within the shown obituary are true?  Fact or fiction?  You decide. [4]