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Dorcas ye blackmore
?–1677
United States
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Biography
Dorcas ye blackmore (c. 1620–after 1677) was one of the first African Americans to settle in New England whose name has survived in records. In 1641, she became the first known African American admitted to the local Puritan congregation.
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