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Wentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Paul Revere.
Yet another great Granite State Patriot
Wentworth Cheswell is considered New Hampshire's first archaeologist and the first African-American elected to public office in the United States. He also rode north when Paul Revere rode west to warn colonists that the redcoats were coming.
As for the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital..
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital was conceived as a 30-bed hospital on March 15, 1904 when the Dover City Council accepted "the receipt in trust of a legacy under the will of the late Arioch Wentworth" who gave "to the town of Dover, NH, for a hospital to be called the Wentworth", $100,000.
