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Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 to March 1770) was an American slave, merchant seaman and dockworker. There are no records of him having a wife, as slaves were not allowed to marry.
Crispus Attucks was one of the victims of the "Boston Massacre" in 1770. He may have been an escaped slave who ran away in 1850, 20 years before he died. He was probably partly of African and partly of Native American descent.
Crispus Attucks (b. circa 1723; d. 1770) Death during Boston Massacre Runaway slave turned sailor African and Natick Indian Remembered as the "First to die in the American Revolution," A poet, John Boyle O Reilly, wrote of Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre "And honor to Crispus Attucks, who was leader and voice that day; The first to defy and the first to die, with Maverick, Carr, and Gray. It riot or revolution, or mob or crowd as you may, such deaths have been seeds of nations, such lives shall be honored for ay."
The Boston Massacre
Many European settlements did occur between the years 1500 and 1770. However, most of the European migration and settlement happened between the 1640s and 1770, as English began to settle the islands in the New World.