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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Dorchester, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, July 11th, 1839, Thursday morning

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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston describes a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and its accompanying controversy over petitioning. Complains of Mary S. Parker's "folly, intemperance and rudeness." The Society should concentrate its efforts on the city of Boston. Anne had a tooth extracted and "the Dr. almost killed me." She describes her return to Dorchester in the stage at 4 a.m. Sylvia Ammidon is engaged "to Parker's brother." And Maria Mack has a daughter, Eliza. Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman is going to address the Female Anti-Slavery Society in Lynn.
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Keywords

  1. Ammidon, Sylvia Ann
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Boston Female Anti Slavery Society
  5. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  6. Correspondence
  7. History
  8. Mack, Maria
  9. Massachusetts
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  13. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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