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1. 003. William H. W. Barnwell to Edgar B. Day -- January 18, 1832

003. William H. W. Barnwell to Edgar B. Day -- January 18, 1832
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1832-01-18
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William H. W. Barnwell, from Laurel Bay Plantation, writes to friend Edgar Day in Catskill, New York. After 4 years without correspondence, Barnwell apprises Day of his marriage, the birth of his first child and his religious conversion during a revival in Gillisonville, SC. He also speaks of forming a local temperance society and hopes to establish "one upon my plantation among my Negroes." January 18, 1832.

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