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Arranging sale of a slave mother and seven children to Mr. Slatter, "a negro buyer." Lists the names and ages of slaves, as well as speculates on the amount each one will sell for. He writes that the children"at this valuation are presumed to be healthy" and estimates that he will earn a total of $1,725 for their sale. the agent of a slave buyer named Mr. Donoven will Wirt's slaves and take them to Richmond to sell if Wirt does not sell them to Washington.

Deposition identifying Francis Cisco as an escaped slave from New Jersey; Williams "saw him often on Hollidays, somewhat older than myself Know his Grandparents & knew him…untill he left the state & also knew his Master..." Sand[rus?] claims to have seen "Francis Cisco who now I understand is in West Haven in this State I saw him here in this City about a year since…I Know he belongs in that State [New Jersey]."

Two men, Dr. Beasley and D. P. Evans, tried to dismiss him as pastor but church members signed a petition to keep him. His presbytery will leave its present connection"unless slaveholders shall be excluded" from the constitutional body; they would have left the Assembly if the Synod had not suspended Graham. They would not send a representative until the Assembly reformed its position on slavery.

Reflections on friends and family in Vermont, homesickness. "I do sometimes in fancys dreams have found myself amid your happy circle, but when I awake it is all a dream & I find myself at home in the far west gazing on these endless prairies like the illimitable ocean dotted only here and there by lonely islands of forests." Responds to Spencer's references to Puritans in New England, "You speak of Puritans in New England as if there was some magic in the term." Lauds Puritains' "integrity of character, their patriotism, their humanity, and their zeal for religion," worries that the United States has lost touch with these qualities, and believes celebrating American liberty and protection of the oppressed is disingenuous. Hopeful for a change, especially for political responses to slavery. Wonders if Spencer is an abolitionist, noting a "soul stir[r]ing Liberty convention for Northern Illinois" that advanced Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) as a political candidate. Comments on a recent wedding, local health, weather, and his father writing an abolition speech.

Attended anti-slavery meetings at the State House and Faneuil Hall, Boston. Mentions a speech made by "Slave Douglass" [presumably Frederick], about 4000 people attended the Faneuil Hall meeting.

Abolitionist analysis of the Democratic Party, the presidential election of 1844, the admission of Texas to the Union, and John P. Hale [a U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire] He has enclosed a book that he wrote on the Democrats and slavery [enclosure not present].

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.