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Letter from Miller Davison in Monroe County, Alabama, to James Dellet in Washington, D.C.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In the letter Davison, an overseer for Dellet, discusses weather, livestock, and harvesting crops. He also describes punishing two slaves. He whipped a woman and shot a man in the leg; according to Davidson, "...I went to whip him and he told me if I laind mi hands on him that he would cut me open withe his ax. I shot him in the lages which I am glad that hit did not hert him. He will be able to goe to worke in a few day." At the time the letter was written, Dellet was serving in the United States House of Representatives; he served there from 1839 to 1841 and from 1843 to 1845.
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1844 February 1 1844 02 01
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