Letter from Deborah Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 7, 1851
Item Information
- Title:
- Letter from Deborah Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 7, 1851
- Author:
- Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
- Addressee:
- Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
- Date:
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April 7, 1851
- Format:
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Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department - Collection (local):
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Anti-Slavery Collection
- Subjects:
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Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Railroads--History
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Dean, Rev.
Dexter, Franklin, 1793-1857
French, Rodney, approximately 1802-1882
Grant, Charles
Perkins, Jonas, 1790-1874
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813-1886
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Quincy, Josiah, 1802-1882
Rantoul, Robert, Jr., 1805-1852
Sims, Thomas, approximately 1834-
Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861
Snow, Donald
Ticknor, George, 1791-1871
Weston, Hervey Eliphaz, 1817-1882
Weston, R. Warren (Richard Warren), 1819-1873
Free Soil Party (Mass.)
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
- Extent:
- 3 leaves (12 p.) ; 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. and 7 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm418082h
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Place of origin:
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Weymouth, [Mass.]
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Holograph, signed with initials.
Deborah Weston received Anne Warren Weston's letter about Warren Weston and is glad that he is "trying active remedies" [for some unnamed ailment]. She gives news of the family in Weymouth. She tells about getting [Robert?] Rantoul interested in "a slave case" [of Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave,] and how his subsequent acts embarrassed Caleb Cushing and the Whigs. F. Dexter wrote to Judge Shaw urging him to grant a writ of habeas corpus. Prayers for Sims were sent all over Massachusetts. Rev. J. Perkins would only deliver the prayer if Sims were "unjustly detained." Deborah disapproved of Rev. Dean's preaching, a minister from Quincy. Deborah comments: "[Edmund] Quincy spoke in the worst manner possible of young Josiahs anti-slavery, that is, said he was not the least of an abolitionist & you would have thought he was talking of a person in George Ticknor's state of mind." Deborah said: "Hervey [Weston?] said in his pigeon letter that a few orthodox ministers prayed for Sims, but Huntington, Coolidge & Young did not." Wendell [Phillips] was five hours in the police court fighting over the two Snowdons." There was added train service and Joe Lampson and others from the Old Colony Road resigned. Sheriff Coburn failed to arrest a man for a stabbing in spite of considerable financial inducements. Deborah gives an account of a Free Soil convention, of which Rodney French was the chairman and Wendell Phillips the principal speaker. Deborah said: "The military are talking large of shooting Wendell & of firing upon the coloured people with blank cartridges." She speculates on the identity of the vessel in which a slave [perhaps Thomas Sims] is to be carried to safety. Charles Grant reports on the plans of his family. Mrs. Ann Phillips is sick.
- Identifier:
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3132740
- Call #:
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Ms.A.9.2 v.25, p.79
- Barcode:
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39999063104952
mq8390868
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