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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04021-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 November 1788
- Author/Creator
- Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Wadsworth comments on an escaped enslaved person or servant: "Mrs. Greene left us last Monday for Charleston Via N York on the night before she went away- her molatto man servant Ham left her & has been heard of on his way to Boston. she wishes to regain him he has been a favorite from his infancy & brot up un the family- as damed a rascal as [ever] was unhanged- & if I could now get him to Georgia she would sell him... I will have some body bring him away privately for I am told to do it publicly is impossible in Boston." Notes that his cousin, James Wadsworth, and other anti-Federalists have lost their influence in the [Connecticut] assembly. Says "The [antis] are making one more effort in ye Election of Assembly Men for the new Congress - but will fail!" Docket notes this letter was received and answered 5 November.
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