- GLC#
- GLC09286
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 25, 1815
- Author/Creator
- Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836
- Title
- To Jacob Gurby
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. :
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Counsels a client on the best way to recover a slave: "If a Slave be brought from another state to the state of N York & there sold, such slave is by the laws of N York declared free. It is therefore of Moment to establish that the sale was made at New London or at least, not in N York." 1 p. With ALS of Joseph Skinner forwarding on Burr's instructions regarding a suit against the Manumission Society to Jacob Gurby.
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