Letter from Deborah Weston, Boston Fast(?), [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 9th / [18]51

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Title:
Letter from Deborah Weston, Boston Fast(?), [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 9th / [18]51
Author:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
[April 9, 1851]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
United States
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Fugitive slaves
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Sargent, Henrietta
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 6 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm418095k
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston Fast(?), [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed with initials.
Deborah Weston heard that the mayor of Worcester refused the request of Mayor Bigelow of Boston for police protection at the Worcester railroad station of a party of law officers returning a fugitive slave [perhaps Thomas Sims] to his owners. She heard that Sheriff Eveleth would do nothing, but that Marshal Francis Tukey would obey orders of the mayor. She gives news of friends and social events. A man named Chandler died but left Henrietta Sargent nothing. Mrs. Lydia Maria Child "had a fight with Mrs. Silsbee on the Slave law ..." She tells about the visit of Mrs. Parker to the home of H. Sargent.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3132741
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.25, p.80A
Barcode:
39999063104960
mq8390595