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1. Elizabeth Russel's Petition Letter to the St. Andrew's Society

Elizabeth Russel's Petition Letter to the St. Andrew's Society
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1758
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Letter petitioning the Saint Andrew's Society on behalf of an impoverished and twice widowed woman, Elizabeth Russel, and her surviving child. The letter states her husband and some of her children died when an enslaved woman, owned by the family, poisoned them as well as herself. Russel and one of her children lived despite also being poisoned.

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