Theodora Phelps, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, March 1769
Date1769-03
abstractLetter from Theodora Phelps to Wheelock asking to borrow an enslaved person, March 1769.
RepositoryRauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Call NumberMS 1310: Eleazar Wheelock Collection, Box 19, Folder 769240.1
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Revd & Hond Sir
Inform that I send Salley to yr house to know
if you will Lend Dinah, I Intended to Come
my Self but Indisposion of Body is Such withe
me that [illegible: 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 Touch her Colln Pilkins affair
is Settled on good Termes Horsfords Case
has had a hearing but is adjoirned till
ye week after next, but by the Judgement
of them who are to be Regarded it Looks
prosperous on our Side & that Mr Phelps is not
much mistaken in his former if
upon the whole Sir [illegible:
to Send her we muſt Rest untill Better
Security can be had
Theda Phelps
Duty to Hond mama and
Love to Brothers & Sisters