Manuscript document appointing Major McLemore to retrieve Claiborne Clifton's runaway slave - page 2
Work Type
autographs (manuscripts)
Date
1808-04-18
Location
Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
Description
Newspaper clipping: "... On the 24th of June, 1807, near Salisbury, and committed to jail, a runaway slave, who says his name is TONY, and says he belongs to a Mr. Richard Wiln or Ware, in Amelia County, Va. He is about 5 feet high, and 35 or 40 years old; he talks broken English, and says he runaway from his master as he was going to the south to sell him..."
Repository
Collection Title Proper: Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
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