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BACON, Samuel, clergyman, born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 22 July 1781; died in Kent, Cape Shilling, Africa, 3 May 1820. He was graduated at Harvard in 1808, and then studied law, which he subsequently practiced in Pennsylvania. For a time he edited the "Worcester 2Egis," and later the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, "Hive," and then was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal ministry. In 1819 he was appointed by the United States government one of three agents to colonize Africa with Negroes, under the auspices of the American colonization society. The expedition sailed for Sierra Leone, reaching that port on 9 March 1820, and a settlement was made at Campelar, on the Sherboro river. Here his two associates died, and he in declining health was removed to Kent, where his last days were spent. See "Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Bacon," by Jehudi Ashmun (1822).
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