A broadside about the issue of manumission of enslaved people as well as indentured servants who are fighting for the United States. The anonymous writer critiques the use of enslaved and indentured persons in the war. He argues that they should be emancipated.; American Philosophical Society
A broadside about the issue of manumission of enslaved people as well as indentured servants who are fighting for the United States. The anonymous writer critiques the use of enslaved and indentured persons in the war. He argues that they should be emancipated. (Includes quote from Horace.); American Philosophical Society
Comments that Gen. [Elijah] Clarke's skirmish with the Indians [at Jack's Creek, Ga.] was misrepresented and that Clarke's letter that will be published in a newspaper gives a very different account of the matter, and describes Clarke's account of the skirmish; asks him to sell barrels of rice; gives instructions for work to be done by his own Negroes.
Informs him about James Habersham's business matters, mentions that he still has several Negroes to hire out, and expresses hope that he can pay debts without "parting with my poor fugitives"; informs him about a report that St. Eustatius and St. Martin, [W.I.] were retaken by the French; informs him that in Virginia paper money is no longer legal tender in payment of any debt or contract except taxes for 1781, describes the procedure adopted by the House of Assembly for retiring the emission, and mentions that the House also settled on a scale of depreciation for paying debts.
Deborah Norris Logan writes to Sarah Wister. She describes Philadelphia, writing "but alas our Philadelphia is not as it used to be you can scarse walk a square without seeing the shocking sight of a cart with five or six coffins in it. Oh it is too dreadful a scene to attempt to describe the poor creatures die without number. Large pits are dug in the negroes burying ground and forty or fifty coffins are put in this one hole." Deborah continues to describe her life and the experiences of mutual friends.; American Philosophical Society
Complains that Negroes who belong to citizens of South Carolina were captured by the British and recaptured by armed vessels belonging to Massachusetts and that they are still detained by the latter state.; "Copy"
Discusses problems involving his own slaves; discusses matters before
the legislature, which include efforts to give "Credit & Stability" to paper
money.
Letter from Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson about the current state of war in Virginia. Pendleton describes Dunmore's situation writing, amongst other things, that "[h]is slave scheme is also at an end, since it is now Public that he has sent off a sloop load to the West Indies, which has made others use every endeavor to escape from him, and will stop his further increase of that Crew."; This is a transcription of the original letter, the recipient's copy is at the Library of Congress.; American Philosophical Society
