A new highway marker in New Hampshire will highlight the gravesite of a former slave who became the town nurse in Barrington. It also honors the gravesite of Rev. Benjamin Balch.
The marker on Route 9 notes the reinterred graves in Pine Grove Cemetery of two members of the Balch household The Rev. Benjamin Balch, the first chaplain of the Continental Navy, and a woman named Aggie, who lived out her life in Barrington after her emancipation and became known as the town's nurse.
BARRINGTON, N.H. (AP) New Hampshire's latest historical highway marker notes the gravesites of two people in Barrington, including an African American woman who was enslaved as a child and who nursed the town's sick residents during a severe epidemic.