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Letter from Mary Weston, [Weymouth, Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Monday afternoon, 24 October [1836]

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Holograph, signed.Mary Weston begins this letter with family news. She says that Emma Weston went for a ride with Henry Cowing in "a civered [sic] waggon." She tells about the actions of Rev. Jonas Perkins at a meeting. Perkins did not think that emancipation of the slaves could be accomplished without bloodshed. She describes a meeting of an anti-slavery society. Mary Weston discusses Betsy White's funeral and a lecture by Charles Fitch. Ezra Weston induced a sea captain to bring Augustus Hesse home. Mary Weston is planning some visits.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Correspondence
  4. Cowing, Henry Balch B. 1812
  5. Emancipation
  6. Fitch, Charles 1805 1844
  7. Hesse, Augustus D. 1867
  8. History
  9. Massachusetts
  10. Perkins, Jonas 1790 1874
  11. Slaver
  12. Slaves
  13. United States
  14. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  15. Weston, Ezra 1772 1842
  16. Weston, Mary 1786 1860
  17. White, Betsy
  18. Women
  19. Women Abolitionists

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