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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Attachment, 1757 Dec 8

Item 4

 Item — Folder 9: Series Series 1; Series Series 2
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents

The goods of Gabriel Dutcher are ordered attached until he shall appear at court to answer Oliver Wolcott. The case involves the seizure of "four negros as the estate of the said John Dutcher" and goes on to list "Tom aged about fifty another named Mary a woman aged about fifty another named Zach a boy aged about eleven and another named Adam aged about six years."

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1757 Dec 8

Bellamy, Rev. Joseph, 1782 Jun 16

Folder 2

 File — Folder 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3; Series Series 4; Series Series 5; Series Series 6; Series Series 7; Series Series 8
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Rev. Bellamy dated June 16, 1782 from Bethlem, asking Capt. Morris for the status of his servant Robert Potter, who was bound out to Rev. Bellamy and mustered into the Continental Army. Includes a typed transcript.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1782 Jun 16

Bristol, William B., 1833-1842

Folder 18

 File — Folder 18: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3; Series Series 4; Series Series 5; Series Series 6; Series Series 7; Series Series 8
Identifier: Folder 18
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series has been divided into seven subseries to reflect Woodruff's diverse business and personal correspondence. The first subseries, law, consists primarily of correspondence from his law clients, for whom he worked in many cases as a debt collector, as well as from those he dunned for money. The second subseries represents his correspondence as postmaster of Litchfield. In addition to routine postal office business, including scheduling mail deliveries, inquiring about potential...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1833-1842

Mason, George C. to "my dear friend", 1865

Folder 9

 File — Beebe family papers Box 1: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 1.9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents

Two letters regarding the end of the U.S. Civil War; offers a proposition for leasing plantation land through the Freedman's Bureau and working them with paid labor of African Americans; notes that Northern men have made profits doing this and provides an estimate of anticipated costs and probable income.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1865

Tallmadge, Benjamin to George Washington, 1783 Feb 21

Folder 20

 Item — Folder 20: Series Series 1; Series Series 3; Series Series 5
Identifier: Folder 20
Scope and Contents

Reports capture of British privateer Three Brothers by ship commanded by Amos Hubbell of Stratford and troops commanded by Caleb Brewster; Tallmadge asks Washington for an order condemning the ship; some African Americans among the prisoners.

Dates: 1783 Feb 21

Tallmadge, Benjamin to Maria Tallmadge, [1802?] Feb 7

Folder 104

 Item — Folder 104: Series Series 1
Identifier: Folder 104
Scope and Contents

Acknowledges and commends Maria's letter; remarks that his son George Washington Tallmadge has mistaken Thomas Paine for a hostler; dscription of Paine's physiognomy; asks Maria to try to teach Ebo, a young African American, how to read.

Dates: [1802?] Feb 7

Tallmadge, Benjamin to Robert Howe, 1779 Sep 6

Folder 8

 Item — Folder 8: Series Series 1; Series Series 3; Series Series 4; Series Series 5
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents

Report of a raid led by Tallmadge on Lloyd's Neck, Long Island, consisting of a detachment of the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons plus other Continental troops; mentions capture of Capt. Glover with certificate from Lt. Col. John Graves Simco and an African American belonging to a Tory, John McAlpin.

Dates: 1779 Sep 6

Tallmadge, Benjamin to Simeon Baldwin, 1804 Sep 7

 Item — Folder 6: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3; Series Series 4; Series Series 5
Scope and Contents

Concerns some private business; a "negro fellow" has asked to live with Tallmadge and help him obtain a divorce. Photostat.

Dates: 1804 Sep 7

Tallmadge, Benjamin to Tapping Reeve, 1816 Dec 26

 Item — Folder 36: Series Series 1
Scope and Contents

Discusses idea of colonizing enslaved people and free African Americans. Photostat.

Dates: 1816 Dec 26