Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, October 5, 1836, Thursday evening

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Place of origin:
New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Deborah Westons tells Caroline Weston about the activities of the local abolitionists and the circulation of anti-slavery petitions. Deborah writes: "...Isaac Taber says that he heard in New Bedford that there had been a private meeting of the Mass. Anti S. S. [Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] in which it was decided that the abolitionists should vote for Van Buren." Deborah doesn't believe this report. She writes at length about the anti-slavery meetings. She comments that Henry Lee speaks well. She gives verbatim an argument she had with a youth named Cunningham. She discusses various letters she received and sent out. She went to the temperence meeting in Mr. Choules's church.
Identifier:
3132641
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.8, p.58
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