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Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797 to Andrew Adams

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05330 Author/Creator: Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph note signed Date: October 1779 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 21 cm Order a Copy

Signed with initials. Date from docket. Wolcott attests to a statement he made in a letter to Jacob Bogardus: "The aspersion mentioned in Mr. Bogardus letter was that I wrote to him that the conduct of [Mr. Shneill] in selling his negro I considered a wanton act of Barbarity. OW." Written on a blank leaf, with address leaf on verso, to Andrew Adams, docketed "Genl. Wolcott's letter inclosing a letter from Jacob Bogardus & Dep. Oct. 1779."

Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797
Adams, Andrew, 1736-1797
Bogardus, Jacob, 1750-?

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