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Zipporah Potter Atkins : ウィキペディア英語版 | Zipporah Potter Atkins
Zipporah Potter Atkins was a free African American women who owned land in colonial Boston, during a time when few women or African Americans owned land in the American Colonies. The purchase of her home, dated 1670, makes her the first African American to own land in the city of Boston, and with Anthony Johnson (colonist) one of the earliest African-American landowners in what would become the United States. == Biography == Zipporah Potter was born to Richard and Grace,〔("Registers of probate for the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts, 1639-1799." ) ''www.archive.org.'' Retrieved October 23, 2015.〕 slaves of Captain Robert Keayne, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the mid-1600s. Children born to slaves in Boston at that time were considered free upon birth,〔(Massachusetts Historical Society )〕 explaining Zipporah's status as a free African American in colonial Boston. Taking the surname of Atkins upon marriage, Zipporah is reported to have had six surnames in total. Her marriage was reportedly officiated by the prominent Puritan minister Cotton Mather.
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