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

Witness
Morton Edely[?]

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Title

Durfee, Nathan, letter, Fall River, Mass., November 17, 1853, to Peter Still

Description

Nathan Durfee, assuming that a total of 3,500 dollars is required to free Peter Still’s enslaved family, offers to pay 600 dollars to him, once that is the remaining sum which Still requires, provided the family members all then come to live with Durfee and work as servants in his household until the 600 dollars should be paid off. The letter bears the (partly illegible) signature of a witness to Durfee’s offer.

Source

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

Date

1853-11-17

Rights

public domain

Format

1 p.

Identifier

rutgers-lib:26845
doi:10.7282/T3000272

Citation

Durfee, Nathan, 1799-1876, “Durfee, Nathan, letter, Fall River, Mass., November 17, 1853, to Peter Still,” Peter Still Digital Edition, accessed March 28, 2024, https://stillpapers.org/items/show/26.

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