Letter from Jane Gorin in Livingston, Alabama, to James Dellet, in Washington, D.C.
In the letter Gorin asks Dellet to buy three slaves so she can help pay some of her husband's debt. She wants him to purchase the man, woman, and child for $1,300, and then she plans to take them to New Orleans and hire them out by the day. It is possible that Gorin is Dellet's sister-in-l...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the letter Gorin asks Dellet to buy three slaves so she can help pay some of her husband's debt. She wants him to purchase the man, woman, and child for $1,300, and then she plans to take them to New Orleans and hire them out by the day. It is possible that Gorin is Dellet's sister-in-law: at the beginning of the letter she seems to refer to his wife ("I thought I wou'd [sic] spare my sisters [sic] feelings from this disagreeable task. I know well what it is to ask a husband favors for poor relations"), and she closes with "Your affectionate but unknown sister." At the time the letter was written, Dellet was serving in the United States House of Representatives; he served there from 1839 to 1841 and from 1843 to 1845. |
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