Vol.1674B, p. 51

Object number
1674B_0051
Description
A copy of a letter recorded in the Book of Records of the African Union Society addressed to William White, Absalom Jones, Caesar Thomas, Caesar Wethington, Peter "Mellr [sic]", Moses Johnston, and Mark Stevenson, listed as the Committee of the Free African Society at Philadelphia, by order to Anthony Taylor, President, and Caesar Lyndon, Secretary. Letter thanks Henry Steward for bringing awareness of the Free African Society to the attention of the African Union Society in Newport, quotes Anthony Taylor's open letter to all freed Africans in Rhode Island, and lists correspondence traded between the Union Society at Newport and other parties, including William Thornton and the Union Society at Providence.
Documentation Type
Institutional Records