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Freeman, Watson, fl. 1827-1857 to James Buchanan

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09028.04 Author/Creator: Freeman, Watson, fl. 1827-1857 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: March 1857 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Copy of Watson's letter to Buchanan asking to be reappointed as U.S. Marshal. References his service as marshal for the last four years. Describes the case of fugitive slave Anthony Burns. "...the people of Boston, who witnessed the battering down the door of the Court House, & the murder of one of my deputies, standing by my side, by a mob of two thousand abolitionists in their attempt to rescue from my custody the Slave Burns." States he did not leave his post for eight days and that he has received anonymous death threats. Mentions that his father, a merchant in Boston, invested all his money in government securities.

Freeman, Watson, fl. 1827-1857
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

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