Letter, Wythe Court House, Va., to Sarah Buchanan Preston, Abingdon, Va. [manuscript], [1837?] Feb. 16.

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Letter, Wythe Court House, Va., to Sarah Buchanan Preston, Abingdon, Va. [manuscript], [1837?] Feb. 16.

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Smyth writes to Preston begging her cousin to buy a slave mother and her six children whom the Smyths must sell for debt. Smyth gives a brief description of the family mentioning that the eldest child suffers from St. Vitus's Dance and that Sally, the mother, is expecting another child in June.

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Smyth, Ann Madison Boyer, 1797-1851.

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Preston, Sarah Buchanan Campbell, 1778-1846

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