Tennessee Documentary History
  Multiple Collection Search     View bookbag 
your bookbag has 0 items 
design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic
design graphic Home design graphic   Searchdesign graphic design graphic Browse design graphic Help
design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic design graphic
list of all pages | add to bookbag | view text


Title:[Letter] 1844 May 15, Loudon County, Virginia [to] Andrew J. Donelson, Tennessee / John A. Carter : a machine readable transcription of an image
Author:Carter, John A.
Availability:

This work is the property of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. For all other use contact the Tennessee State Library and Archives, 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243-0312. (615) 741-2764.

Date: May 15, 1844
Extent: 3p
Summary:This is a letter from John A. Carter to Andrew J. Donelson, dated May 15, 1844. Carter thanks Donelson for helping Betty and her child to Virginia. Carter asks Donelson if he is willing to buy a slave named Polly. In an addition to the letter that Donelson writes two years later, he states that he did buy Polly.
Collection:A. J. Donelson Papers
Box: I-D-3
Folder:3
Document:sl276
Keywords:



Page [1]  view page image

Loudon County Va [Virginia]May 15th 1844
My Dear Sir

I am pleased to tell you that Betty & her child arrived at my farm in due time safe, & you will be pleased to accept my thanks for your care of them & the aid you gave me in getting them to Virginia ; I have just meet [met] with mr George Glasscock formerly of Virginia now of Tence [Tennessee] and who tells me he lives in some 40 or 50 miles of you, & the object of my now writing is to enform [inform] you that I have authorised [authorized] Mr Glasscock to make some satisfactory arrangement in regard to the remaining negro woman (Polly) I think you mentioned that she had [unclear: married ] one of your men, if so I hope you will find it agreeable to purchase her but of course can not expect



Page [2]  view page image

you to do so unless agreeable to you, if you wish to purchase polley Mr Glasscock will arrange with you the price & I think you also mentioned that there were one or more children; [unclear: hoping ] that you will be relieved from any further trouble with this negro & returning you my thanks for your kindness I remain

Very Truly Yr Snt [Your Servant]
John A. Carter
Executor of H. R. Dulany
[added:
Col [Colonel] Donelson }
][added: Informed Mr. Carter on the 23rd April 1846 — that I could buy the woman at a fair price — if he were authorised to sell. That I did not wish her to remain at my plantation on the present terms — that I would pay no [unclear: hire ] for her — her [unclear: saving ] had not more than paid present [unclear: advances ] — that I wished him to come and see me —
A [Andrew] J Donelson
at Washington 23rd April
1846 —]


Page [3]  view page image

Col Andrew J Donelson Tennessee AttentionMr Glasscock
[added: May 15th. 1844
Mr Dulany — ad —
to be attended to when
I went Washington — April 1846 —]

A product of DLPS
To comment or inquire about content, contact UTK Special Collections
To report errors, contact UTK Special Collections