Emmett's use of " Dixie " was as a personal name, given to a black postboy, and may have been used as to indicate that the character, played by a white actor, was in fact black.
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From the March 12, 1774, issue of " The Massachusetts Gazette and the Boston PostBoy and Advertiser ", " We hear from Nantucket that on Wednesday the 9th of March Instant ( 1774 ) at about 8 o clock in the Morning, they had a most violent Gust of Wind that perhaps was ever known there, but it lasted only about a Minute.
