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THE LAST SURVIVOR OF BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT-Died in Williamstown, Mass. January 27th, Ishmael Titus colored, of the extraordinary age of 109 or 110 years. He was born a slave in Virginia, and when Gen. Braddock set out on his ill-fated expedition, the master of Ishmael was employed by the commissary to transport subsistence stores for the army; and, as the wagon was heavily loaded, an additional horse was added to the team, and the boy Ishmael was placed upon this third horse as rider

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