Alexander Triplett Burnley, New Orleans, Louisiana to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Williamsburg, Virginia

Containers:
Box 52, Folder 5
Scope and content:

Sends check for $500. Went to St. Louis with intention taking all the enslaved persons to my plantation. Susan and her one child I have sent down as she has a free husband who works on the river and can see her while living with me as well as at St. Louis & she was perfectly willing to go. Ursula's children first agreed to go and then the parting scene was so intense, Burnley agreed to sell them at a low price in St. Louis to someone they preferred. Will purchase wives and children of those in Texas and send them from Texas up to his plantation.

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
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