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 1858-01-27. 
January 27, 1858 from Henry and Milly Franklin to Dr. James H. Minor

  

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January 27, 1858 from Henry and Milly Franklin to Dr. James H. Minor

honerableDoctor Miner & your Lady
Miss May miner & Mr Edward Lewis
Dear Sir.

pl please to accepect these few
Lines from me hoping that the Same may
find & you & yours all well. & as to myself
& Dear old mother & Brother Warren &
Little Allis we are all well. I like the
Country very well indeed & have no
Desire to return to A America. for we be
leve there is no County on the Earth can
Equal it in the world. & now Sir my mother Dear mother
wants you Sir if you please to Send her.
or one barrel of pork. one bar of Soap.
one half barrel of Suger Some Cloth for her
Little grand Child. its mother is Dead. named
Rachel man. & for my mother Some Shoes.
Some Cloth. one barrel of Mackerel & now
Sir for myself. Henry Franklin. one barrel of
pork. one box of soap. one barrel of Shingleing nals
or nails. one barrel of Leaf Tobacco & 2 axes & 2
hoes & Sirs & madam please to give my best
& kindest Love & respects to all my Enquiring
friends both while & Coloured & we write for those
articles because we had no plank from the
Society [1] nor anyese anythingelse and we Did not
riceived our portion with the rest. we apply to you
Sir for the ballence. which when the articles comes


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will be very accepetable in Deed
no more at present

I your humble & obediant Servant
Henry Franklin & Milly Franklin

his mother
PS Two Sacks of Salt & Two bars of Iron

 
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The American Colonization Society, a group working to re-settle former African-American slaves to Liberia.