Letter : Boston, to John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, 1783 Dec. 20.

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Letter : Boston, to John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, 1783 Dec. 20.

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Forwarding the court's opinion in the matter of the Complaint of the Governor of South Carolina that the Massachusetts judiciary had illegally interfered with the return of eight runaway slaves; the opinion states that the negroes had been unlawfully imprisoned but that that act in no wise constituted an infringement of the rights of either the U.S. or the State of South Carolina.

1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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