Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Matthew Maury, Charleston, South Carolina, to his mother, Margaret Maury, Liverpool, England, 1826 March 8
File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Identifier: id82711
Scope and Contents
Hopes to go to Savannah the next day; the trip he has planned to Mobile and New Orleans; the rapid development of some of the area he will be traveling through; his life revoles around cotton consignment; the weather has been unusually warm lately; Chaleston looks the oldest of all the cities he has been to in America; it reminds him of a European city; the police are very strict because of the large black population and the attempted revolts; slaves have a curfew; the citizens of Charleston...
Dates:
1826 March 8