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Court document certifying that Sally Carter swore that roughly 19-year-old Nancy Cater was free-born "and entitled to all the privaledges of a free person of colour." Includes description of Nancy Carter. Signed by Sally Carter with a mark. April 25 certification on verso provided by Mark H. Pettway, the Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Halifax, certifying John Young and Charles Shield as Justices of the Peace.

Utilizing Jeff, a 26-year-old enslaved man, as security on a lien for $450. Certified by William Woodcock, clerk of the County Court.

Recent slave purchases and prices and local reaction to Nat Turner's Southampton Insurrection; "negroes making the attempt to arise in Southampton County about 60 miles below hear are all suppressed . . . 50 or 60 they killed in all of the whites 64 mostly women & children..." Rumors of another insurrection in North Carolina have been dispelled.

Reaction to Nat Turner's Rebellion; "I perceive by the tenor of your letter, that the most exaggerated and unfounded reports have reached your town, and caused much unnecesary excitement among you." The source of the hysteria is the Turner rebellion and some arrests made in North Carolina. They are alert but "feel little or no apprehension."

Expresses satisfaction at Carey's pamphlet,"Reflections on the Causes that led to the Formation of the Colonization Society," [Carey hated nullification but favored tariffs to save Union] and asks if he has sent it to those who "profess the Doctrine of Nullification." Regarding the American Colonization Society and fear of disunion in U.S.; "Colonization offers the only Hope that this Country can have..."

"Monthly Statistical Account of Parkhill Estate, St. Vincent from 1st June to 1st July 1832," sent to McDowall at Edinburgh. Lists information on the "Black" population, totaling 232, and the "White" population consisting of Ramsay and Cameron. "Disposal of Population" lists numbers and their current occupations, those in the hospital, invalid, or exempted, "having 6 children." Notes one birth, three pregnant women, and two "Conductors and Nurses." Provides details on livestock, crops, and production of sugar, rum, and molasses. Ramsay produced the report, "there being no other white person upon the Estate at the time." Cameron needed instructions on field laborers and nurses. He provided corn meal to the "little people in the vine Gang... to add to the comforts of their parents who complain of being scarce of wholesome food." Received a circular from the "Medical Gentleman appointed by the Board of Health for this Parish" about preventing cholera. See also Geo[rge] Rickard and Alex McBarnet, partially printed DS to Allan Macdowall, August 1, 1830.

Plea to raise anti-slavery spirit in Pennsylvania, hopes containment of slavery will speed emancipation. Discusses friction between U.S. & British antislavery leaders, mentions his failure to arouse public support for colonization within Great Britain; harshly criticizes Garrison.

Enclosing draft of memorial from the Wesleyan Missionary Society Gen. Committee to Edward Stanley and praises the House of Commons for its recent announcement of the "Entire Abolition of Colonial Slavery." Argues the necessity for Parliament legislating that Afro-Carribeans be given religious freedom in the colonies, and that the persecution of missionaries end.

"Certificat et Serment des Appreciateurs." Property valuation of Michel Bergeron, with slaves' names and ages. Shows listing of 50 male, female, and baby slaves, names, ages, as well as estimations for the value of slave cabins, bails of corn, mules, and horses. [In French]