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Box 4250.001

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

J. W. Scott Letter, 1835 February 23

 File — Box: 4250.001, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a letter from J. W. Scott to Adam Beatty of Washington, Kentucky, written from Perrysburg, Ohio, February 23, 1835. The opening paragraph mentions some enslaved persons of Beatty's who escaped their captivity, whom Scott suggests "are yet in the interior of this state." The remainder of the letter concerns land transactions in anticipation of the expected route of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Dates: 1835 February 23
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4250, Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States