Jabez Bingham Jr., letter, to Hezekiah Edgerton, 25 August 1777
Date25 August, 1777
abstractJabez Bingham Jr. to Hezekiah Edgerton, about sending an enslaved woman to Hanover to work as a cook. Aug. 25 1777. Salisbury.
Repository Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Call NumberMS 1310: Eleazar Wheelock collection, Box 34, Folder 777475.2
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Respected Sir
I Agreed with a Free Negrowomanto go up to Dartmo College
to serve in the place of a CoockCook, and she promisſed to go,
when ever I sent for her, and I have latly had a letter from
Doctor Wheelock deſireing to have her sent up as sun
as posſable and she may depend on Good Usage~ &c
now my affairs and Buisneſs is such that it is defi=
=cult for me to leave this place at Preſent and these
are to deſire you to Contrive some method to Convey
her up to the College and I will settle with you for
Any reaſonable Expence you shall be at in the affair,
Perhaps it will be Best to conſult with Mr. Joel=
Loomis of Norwich who is Agent for Doctor Wheelock,
it may be he can advois to some Cheap way of con=
=veance~ Sir your forwarding her up to the College will
I beleave be of Great service and much oblige Doctor
Wheelock~ I wish you Proſperity pleas to give
my best Regards to Mrs. Ageton and family, also to
Capt Peek and his Family, and excep what will
suffise for your Self from
your most obedient Humble
Serven-
Jabez Bingham Junr