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 Request to hire Perry

  • » Date: 1848-02-29
  • » Subject: Request to hire Perry
  • » Written By: A. F. Gregory
  • » Addressed To: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr
  • » Transcriber: Lois D. Gleaves
  • » File # 1001

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Major James T. Gleaves

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Austinville, Va Feby 29th 1848
Major James T. Gleaves

Dear Sir
I write to inform you that I will give you one hundred dollars for the Services of Perry next year, on the same terms I hired him before, You will please let me know by next Saturday whether or not I may have him at that, which I presume you will do from what you told me in town at court. I expect to start on next Sunday to Philadelphia if you have any news to send to Sam'l I will take it

Yours respectfully,

A.F. Gregory agent
Wythe Union Lead Mines Co

P. S.
If you want the money for Perry's Services you can send and get it any time
Yours obs
A. F. Gregory agt

Transcriber Notes

Perry is one of James Gleaves' slaves.

The Samuel referred to in the letter is Samuel Crockett Gleaves, the son of James Gleaves. Samuel is a student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in Philadelphia at the time of this letter. He will graduate a few months later.

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