by Robinson, William T.
Quarto, two ¼ pages, plus stamp less address leaf, one third of address leaf missing, else in good, clean and legible condition.
1831 A Vermont family of Underground Railroad heroes.
Quarto, two ¼ pages, plus stamp less address leaf, one third of address leaf missing, else in good, clean and legible condition.
A mundane letter of family news by a rich Newport Quaker merchant, whose father, a "violent" Loyalist during the American Revolution, had been a slave trader and South Carolina plantation owner, until he had a change of heart and became a fervent Abolitionist. This tradition was handed down to the writer's nephew Rowland Thomas Robinson, (truncated)
1831 A Vermont family of Underground Railroad heroes.
Quarto, two ¼ pages, plus stamp less address leaf, one third of address leaf missing, else in good, clean and legible condition.
A mundane letter of family news by a rich Newport Quaker merchant, whose father, a "violent" Loyalist during the American Revolution, had been a slave trader and South Carolina plantation owner, until he had a change of heart and became a fervent Abolitionist. This tradition was handed down to the writer's nephew Rowland Thomas Robinson, (truncated)