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License allowing the Wights to sell spiritous liquors out of their home for the following year. License will be rendered void if Wight fails to “keep an orderly and quiet house.” Includes an oath swearing against selling alcohol to enslaved individuals without the “verbal or written consent of the owners or employers of such slave or slaves, or without the like consent of the guardian of any free persons of color..."

Requesting help in obtaining clothing for poor black children that he was able to get into a local school, including a bonnet for a seven-year old girl. Expresses that he has been hesitant to make this request because he did not want to overburden Titus; "perhaps I had better state that the children above alluded to are of the almost universally despised colored class" and hopes to remove "every reasonable objection to them..."

Note announcing that a fugitive slave from New Orleans will be giving his narrative in the evening. Verso: note regarding a breaking and entry case.

Mentions a concert of the Hutchinson family at the Musical Hall, which was shut down by the mayor of Philadelphia [John Swift] "on account of their admitting Gentleman of Couler, wich has made quite a stir amongst the abolitionist here--"

Bond stating that Adam Campbell is to appear in court for providing liquor to an enslaved man named Buc in bondage to Captain Mcquering. Pledged with a $100 guarantee. Signed with Hardin and Campbell’s marks, among others.

Abolitionist writing to his sister; he urged her to leave Boston and travel to live with them out West. St. Clair was publishing an anti-slavery newspaper in Fort Madison, Iowa.

Working in Charles H. Hayden's store in downtown Portland. Describes Portland and his daily routine of working, smoking, and drinking. Notes a friend who "has got a license to sell I need not say what." Comments on the local theatre, describing its interior and discussing plays he has attended by ministrel performers, possibly Dan Rice. "Jim Crow Rice is playing here. I went to see him the other night he played Otello and African Prince . . . the theatre is nothing but an old Barn with ruf Board seats in it the actors are misirable."

Applying to the December term of the circuit court Madison County and meeting at the courthouse in Jackson to receive an Order of Partition and Division for jointly owned slaves Polk and Dalles.

Agreement to pay $40 for the "hire of a male slave, called Henry Bonner until Christmas next, who is to be provided with, at the usual times, a summer and winter suit of clothes, a Hat, Blanket, two shirts, a pair of stockings and shoes, all of good serviceable stuff; said slave not to be carried out of the State of Virginia." Docketed on verso: "Caps to May Court. Dam $20."

Ohio Presbyterian minister hoping to receive funding to support his school buildings for formerly enslaved families fleeing to the North. Notes physical exhaustion and “lung fever” among the missionaries and many of the formerly enslaved individuals. Preparations for a new building, with a need for separate spaces for school and storing donated clothing. States that 300 people have come within the past year, 13 the past Spring, and 9 within a week. "This now is found to be the great Fugitive Stations... this is the great landing point being nearest the south & most convenient to reach." Discusses efforts at religious conversion. “... these Colored slaves kiss the dark Bible not for what they could read but had heard was locked up in its mysterious pages.” Hoping to receive 25-50 cent donations to assist in his religious efforts.