| Book Volume | 17 |
|---|---|
| Page Number | 128-129 |
| Family Name of Bible or Other Record | Unidentified newspaper article. Possibly from Brooklyn Daily Eagle or a New York City newspaper. |
| Title Page/Publisher/Date of Record | Jan 1896 |
| Family Records: Birth and Other Records | x |
| Family Records: Marriage and Other Records | x |
| Family Records: Death and Other Records | Millie Tunnell, olderst inhabitant of Long Island died at Jamaica of old age. She was 111 yo last March. She got her name Tunnell from her owner in slavery days, Henry Tunnell, a wealthy planter of Accomack county,Va. In her youth, she waited on Gen. Washington when he visited her master's estate. When Henry Tunnell died years before the war, he set all his slaves free. They lived in the South for a while and then came North to settle in Jamaica. At first Milleie & her daughter Martha went out to service . Buried in Maple Grove cemetery. |
| Family Records: Other Records | x |
| Additional Other Records | x |
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