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To: Robert C. Wood.

Criticism of abolitionists and mention of a "fracas" involving Cherokees dissatisfied about the results of their election.

GLC07905

Affidavit.

Benjamin Headwine swears that he believes the Spanish ship Cleopatra "is intended for the slave trade."

GLC07910

"We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism..."

Quotation in full: "We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful conflict and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation's life and those who struck to save it--those who fought for...

GLC07926.01

To: James M.H. Beale.

Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."

GLC07927

Authority to affix the seal...to treat...on...suppression of African slave trade

GLC07751

to clerk of Southampton, Va. re: possibility of blacks being sent to Liberia

GLC07773

Brief autobiographical sketch: "A slave in 1837. Free man 1838..."

Includes envelope addressed to Charles Peirce, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

GLC07762

Document re: emancipating his slaves

GLC07774

to John F. Parrott re: papers given in Senate on Colombian Slave trade treaty

GLC07792

to Mary Ball Washington re: his brother's marriage, ordering clothing for slaves

With provenance note stating property of David A. Hayes, and a clipped signature of John Hancock, President.

GLC07858.01