Joseph Watson correspondence, 1826-1846 (bulk 1826-1828).

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Joseph Watson correspondence, 1826-1846 (bulk 1826-1828).

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Watson's correspondence (1826-1828) focuses on the location and recovery of five free African American children who were kidnapped in Philadelphia and sold as slaves in Mississippi and Louisiana. A letter from Philip Hicky, prominent Baton Rouge planter and soldier, indicates his return of one of the kidnapped children. Two additional items have no apparent relationship to Watson. One is a letter from J. L. Buckingham, publisher of the "Feliciana Whig and people's press" (a Clinton, Louisiana, newspaper), to his brother in New York discussing his success in minimizing prejudices against Yankees and use of another person's name [Henry Skipworth, Jr.] as editor of the paper in deference to Whig Party leaders. The other is a letter from Clara Baxter of New Orleans to a friend in Baltimore proclaiming her dislike of New Orleans and the arrest a of naked woman on a crowded street.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Watson, J. (Joseph)

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Joseph Watson was an early nineteenth-century mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From the description of Joseph Watson correspondence, 1826-1846 (bulk 1826-1828). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122642707 ...

Buckingham, J. L.

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Hicky, Philip, 1778-1859.

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Philip Hicky was the son of Daniel Hicky, a planter in the District of Manchac, West Florida, Louisiana. Philip Hicky operated several large plantations including Hope Estate Plantation. As captain of cavalry in the Spanish militia, he was active in the West Florida Rebellion (1810). During the War of 1812, he served as a colonel in the 11th Regiment, Louisiana Militia. He also served in the Louisiana senate and built the first sugar mill in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1814. From the ...