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November 13, 2020 01:54 pm GMT

The wild story of the first known Chinese person to live in Boston in the 1790s

SAMPAN, a Chinese-English newspaper for Chinese and Asian diaspora in New England published by the nonprofit Asian American Civic Association, has a fascinating new post about the first Chinese person to live in Boston.

John Boit, of Boston, was made the Captain of a ship, the Union, when he was only 19 years old.

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