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Manuscript document appointing Major McLemore to retrieve Claiborne Clifton's runaway slave - page 1
- Title:
- Manuscript document appointing Major McLemore to retrieve Claiborne Clifton's runaway slave - page 1
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Creator:
- Clifton, Claiborne
- Creation Date:
- 1808-04-18
- Site:
- Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
- Location:
- Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
- ID Number:
- RMC2013_0001
- Catalog Record:
- 4613203
- Collection Number:
- 4681
- File Name:
- RMC2013_0001.tif
- Work Type:
- autographs (manuscripts)
- Subject:
- Slavery
Fugitive slaves
- Description:
- "...I Claiborne Clifton... do nominate ordain & appoint Major John McLemore... to ask for, Demand & receive from the Keeper of the Common Jail in the Town of Salisbury, North Carolina... a certain Negro man - slave about forty years old and an African by birth named Toney, and otherwise described by an Advertisement edited in Salisbury, who ranaway from my plantation on the Congaree..."
- Cite As:
- Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection, #4681. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection
- Box:
- 14
- Folder:
- 9
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
