Inspired by the "Women in History" Series placed by meandmydogs. I introduce to you Harriet E Wilson a former resident of Milford. NH.
From Wikipedia:
Harriet E. Wilson (June 28, 1825 – March 15 1900) is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known. The novel was discovered in 1982 by the scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who documented it as the first African-American novel published in the United States.
Born a free person of color (free Negro) in New Hampshire, Wilson was orphaned when young and bound until the age of 18 as an indentured servant. She struggled to make a living after that, marrying twice; her only son George died at the age of seven in the poor house, where she had placed him while trying to survive as a widow. She wrote one novel. Wilson later was associated with the Spiritualist church, was paid on the public lecture circuit for her lectures about her life, and worked as a housekeeper in a boarding house.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates, but it is at a great little pocket park with a nice statue of Ms. Wilson
The Final can be found at:
N 42 49.ABC
W 071 38.DE6
1. Harriet Wilson was born in the year 182B and died in the year 1A00.
2. Her son George, passed away at the age of C.
3. Her novel Our Nig was published in 18E9.
4. The number of letters in the name of the city her novel was published in is D </>