Dover Gage

On January 15, 1822, Dover Gage died, "a respectable black man, at a very advanced age. He, and his sister, was stolen from his parents in Africa, while playing a short distance from his home, by some of those miscreants in human shape who violate the rights of their fellow man and make slaves of those whose complexions the God of all may have tinged with a darker hue than their own. He lived in this town from his youth, useful and respected; but it seems to have been the peculiarly hard fate of  Mr. Gage to have been denied a home where his own choice or that of his friends would have fixed him: for scarcely had he been place in his grave ere his body was again stolen, and it may be by his unrelenting white persecutors."

From "Notable Events in the History of Dover, N.H. by George Wadleigh, c. 1913.