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The Rhode Island Republican
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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In May 1810, 103-year-old Samuel Tolman of Dorchester, born 1707 and living in Maine, visited Boston in good health, dined with nearly 70 descendants from over 360 progeny, and expressed readiness to fight for his country as a Revolutionary War veteran.
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In May last, a good old man, by the name of Samuel Tolman, born at Dorchester in the year 1707, aged 103 years, now living at Martinicus Island, (Maine) visited this town and walked up to the Cupola of the new State-House with the informant. He was in good health, reads without glasses and retains his full powers of mind. The thanksgiving before he sat at his table with rising seventy of his children, grand children, and great grand children. He enumerates above three hundred and sixty of his progeny. His oldest son is eighty years old--his youngest by his third and present wife, but thirteen. He has seen three French wars-served in the revolutionary war at the expedition to Penobscot; and says, if our government bid, he is ready to shoulder his arms and do his part to assert his country's rights, if he retains his present strength of body and mind.
[Boston Patriot.]
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Martinicus Island, (Maine)
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In May Last, Born In The Year 1707, Aged 103 Years
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Samuel Tolman, born in 1707 in Dorchester, at age 103 in May last, visited Boston, walked to the State-House cupola, in good health, reads without glasses, retains full mental powers. At previous Thanksgiving, dined with nearly seventy descendants from over 360 progeny. Oldest son 80, youngest 13 by third wife. Served in three French wars and Revolutionary War at Penobscot; ready to fight again if needed.