Jeremiah Wadsworth To Henry Knox On An Escaped Slave Or Servant From Mrs Greene 2 November 1788

Wadsworth comments on an escaped slave or servant: Mrs. Greene left us last Monday for Charleston Via N York on the night before she went away- her molatto man servant Ham left her & has been heard of on his way to Boston. she wishes to regain him he has been a favorite from his infancy & brot up un the family- as damed a rascal as [ever] was unhanged- & if I could now get him to Georgia she would sell him... I will have some body bring him away privately for I am told to do it publicly is impossible in Boston. Notes that his cousin, James Wadsworth, and other anti-Federalists have lost their influence in the [Connecticut] assembly. Says The [antis] are making one more effort in ye Election of Assembly Men for the new Congress - but will fail! Docket notes this letter was received and answered 5 November.