Theodora Phelps, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, March 1769 Phelps, Theodora Digital by Dartmouth Library, Metadata Services Conversion to TEI P5 encoding. Digital by Dartmouth Library Transcribed from the original manuscript Jeremy Mikecz Dartmouth Library, Research Data Services Wrote Python program to (semi-)automate adding of choice tags to Wheelock Enslavement Documents corpus. Dartmouth College Enslavement Documents from the Wheelock Collection A digital edition Trustees of Dartmouth College
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<!-- FIX ME: Replace this comment with the Series name --> Letter from Theodora Phelps to Wheelock asking to borrow an enslaved person, March 1769. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. Enslavement Documents from the Wheelock Collection Theodora Phelps, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, March 1769 Phelps, Theodora

MS 1310: Eleazar Wheelock Collection, Box 19, Folder 769240.1 Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.

The project to digitize the Enslavement Documents from the Wheelock Collection focuses not only on Wheelock’s role as a slave owner, but also documents his involvement with the institution of slavery as it existed in Colonial Connecticut. Slavery as an institution existed throughout colonial America, but its manifestations varied from region to region. This project attempts to cast light on Wheelock’s -- and Dartmouth’s -- roles in the institution of slavery, as well as bringing to light the lives of enslaved people represented in the collection and also providing additional materials to inform the scholarly study of slavery in New England.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) March 1769 English Elizabeth Hadley Liz Shand Maninder Rakhra Maninder Rakhra Laura R. Braunstein Julia Levine Hebron March 1769 Revd Reverend & and Hond Honored Sir

after my Duty to you I would Inform that I send Salley to yr your house to know if you will Lend Dinah, I Intended to Come my Self myself but Indisposion Indisposition of Body is Such withe with me that I am not able to Leave home the affairs of our Debts are at present Such that there is no Danger of any attachment that will well Touch her Colln Collin Pilkins affair is Settled on good Termes Terms Horsfords Case has had a hearing but is adjoirned adjourned till 'til ye the week after next, but by the Judgement of them who are to be Regarded it Looks prosperous on our Side & and that Mr Mr. Phelps is not much mistaken in his former guiſs guess if uppon upon the whole Sir ye you think it unſafe unsafe to Send her we muſt must Rest untill until Better Security can be had

from yr your Dutifull Dutiful Daughter Theda Theodora Phelps

P.S. please to peresent present Duty to Hond Honored mama and Love to Brothers & and Sisters

The Revd Reverend Eleazar Wheelock att at Lebanon North Parish Miſs Miss Theo: Theodora Phelps's March 1769