[Ads-l] Antedating of "Quadroon"

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quadroon (OED 1796)

1780 Royal Gazette (New York) 29 Nov. 3 (GenealogyBank)

The names of the unhappy sufferers which we have yet been able to learn are ... three Quadroon children, and a great number of negroes.

Fred Shapiro

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