Alexander Triplett Burnley, St. Louis, Missouri to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Williamsburg, Virginia
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- Box 48, Folder 6
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When he got to General Smith's. Found enslaved people well and cheerfully willing to migrate south. Especially when they heard Nathaniel Beverley Tucker would follow them and, and when able, buy their husbands and wives. Is delaying in taking them to New Madrid. Weather too cold. Will arrive too late to be hired out well. Has contracted with George B. Crittenden (son of Senator John J. Crittenden) to be in charge of them. General Smith not sending his enslaved persons nor going himself, but may go look at it. He is willing to sell them all land near Matagorda Bay.
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