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Box 1

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Emigration Society Constitution, Anti-Slavery Letter to President of Humane Society and Humane Society Address, 1798, 1799 and undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145463
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1783-1862, of the Thomas Smith family of Powhatan County, Va., Kentucky, and Ohio. Includes typescripts of letters, 1841-1842, of James George Smith; typescript of letter, 1862, of Thomas E. Smith; constitution, 1798, of the Emigration Society; and letter, 1799, and address, n.d., of the Humane Society against slavery. The Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers are primarily the genealogical charts and notes used to trace ancestral lines to the twenty-five Sureties of the Magna Carta...
Dates: 1798, 1799 and undated

The Constitution of the Emigration Society, 1798 March 27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145464
Scope and Contents

The Constitution of the Emigration Society was formed to assist settlers moving to land north of the Ohio River and in securing clear title to the land. Meeting held at Smith's Chapel, March 27, 1798. Manuscript.

Dates: 1798 March 27

Letter to the president of the Humane Society et. al, against slavery, Springfield (Ohio), 1799 September 25

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145465
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1783-1862, of the Thomas Smith family of Powhatan County, Va., Kentucky, and Ohio. Includes typescripts of letters, 1841-1842, of James George Smith; typescript of letter, 1862, of Thomas E. Smith; constitution, 1798, of the Emigration Society; and letter, 1799, and address, n.d., of the Humane Society against slavery. The Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers are primarily the genealogical charts and notes used to trace ancestral lines to the twenty-five Sureties of the Magna Carta...
Dates: 1799 September 25

Address of the "Human Society N.W. of the Ohio River" for Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the N.W. Territory., Undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145466
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1783-1862, of the Thomas Smith family of Powhatan County, Va., Kentucky, and Ohio. Includes typescripts of letters, 1841-1842, of James George Smith; typescript of letter, 1862, of Thomas E. Smith; constitution, 1798, of the Emigration Society; and letter, 1799, and address, n.d., of the Humane Society against slavery. The Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers are primarily the genealogical charts and notes used to trace ancestral lines to the twenty-five Sureties of the Magna Carta...
Dates: Undated