Durfee, Nathan, letter, Fall River, Mass., November 17, 1853, to Peter Still
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Fall River Mass
November 17th 1853
To Peter Still
Sir
You are selecting contributions to purchase your wife & three children from slavery - I understand that $3,500 are required and that you have collected $2,400 & over —
I propose to you, that when you have raised a sum of money $2,900 more or less - a sum to which $600. added thereto will be sufficient to redeem and to pay for the freedom of your wife & those children. I hereby agree & promise to pay you on your order[?] the said sum of Six Hundred dollars on satisfactory evidence of the fact, on condition, that you & [?]your[?] wife & children shall come directly after they are free to my House & live with me as servants & work for me for a fair and reasonable consideration [until] you thereby shall earn the said six hundred dollars —
Nathan Durfee
Morton Edely[?]
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