Old Castle Cresap, Indian fort, Washington Co., MD, 1816
This article appeared in the Maryland Herald, and appeared in the Carolina Federal Republican, New Bern, NC, Nov. 9, 1816.........
LONGEVITY
Died, in Washington county, a few days since, Mammy Lucy, a woman of colour, aged at least one hundred and thirty years, having been the mother of nineteen children. She belkonged to the estate of Mr. Thomas Henry Hall, deceased. Her exact age cannot be established with any degree of certainty; but from the evidence of some ancient family records, it appears that the years of the days she had numbered exceeded six score and ten. An old woman, yet living, who has been attached to the family upwards of seventy years, asserts with confidence, that she overran the above age. She states, that when a small girl herself, Mammy Lucy was called a very old woman and then carried the marks of advanced life. Her youngest son was in Old Castle Cressap (an Indian fort at Mr. Thomas B. Hall's farm, four miles from this town) when invested by aborigines, upwards of 70 years ago. He was a waiter upon Colonel Cresap, the commander, and was at that period 35 years of age. It would appear that the old lady lived throughout the whole of the 18th century, nearly making up, in two more, the grand climaterie of human life. And Lucy gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto her people, being old, and full of days; and her sons and her daughters buried her.