#OnThisDay - 24 April 1731, #DanielDefoe died. Perhaps best known for his novel #RobinsonCrusoe, he also wrote #MollFlanders about a fictional woman from Mile End, #Colchester

In 1722 he leased #Tubswick, a local farm first recorded in 1296.

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