Word: tillett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NAGS HEAD PORTRAIT. In 1869, Dr. William Pool treated a sick woman named Mrs. Tillett at Nags Head near Cape Hatteras. For payment, he accepted a trunk full of fine clothes and a portrait of a young girl in a white gown. Who was she and who painted her? Where had the portrait come from? The subsequent search for answers uncovered a grisly and tragic story...
...Tillett, it seems, had received the oil from her lover, a fisherman who had taken it as part of his salvage from an abandoned ship drifting toward Cape Hatteras. And what was the ship? Apparently the Patriot, which had set sail from Charleston, S.C., on Dec. 30, 1812, passed through the British blockade and then vanished. Her most important passenger was Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr and wife of South Carolina Governor Joseph Alston...