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RUTLEDGE, Edward, Signer (South Carolina). Autograph letter signed ("Ed. Rutledge") to "My dear friend", 12 March 1789. 1.1/3 pages, 4to, 255 x 205mm (10.1/8 x 8.1/8in.), one repaired tear, otherwise fine.
A FUTURE CHIEF JUSTICE ON THE SALE OF A GANG OF SLAVES.
An uncommon Rutledge letter. "...Mr Parker...made me a proposition to give £85 a Head for one half of the gang - that is for 24 or 25 - payable in good Bonds agreeable to the Installment Act...If you approve the price, & the Negroes will come with him, it will be a bargain. I have told him the division will be fairly made, & a due proportion, as to age, & quality preserved in that division - I wish he would agree to take thirty instead of twenty five; He is well able to settle for them, & I would be answerable for the ultimate payment." Referring to his previous two letters he writes: "I shall be anxious to have answers to the great points on which I have written..." and having listed these points, he concludes: "I write this in the assembly room where there is such an abominable noise that its not possible for me to connect two ideas together." In a postscript he writes: "If the sale takes place, as I negotiated it myself, no commission will be paid. But the Negroes will have to be delivered to Carolina - Parker will make this matter as easy as possible."
A FUTURE CHIEF JUSTICE ON THE SALE OF A GANG OF SLAVES.
An uncommon Rutledge letter. "...Mr Parker...made me a proposition to give £85 a Head for one half of the gang - that is for 24 or 25 - payable in good Bonds agreeable to the Installment Act...If you approve the price, & the Negroes will come with him, it will be a bargain. I have told him the division will be fairly made, & a due proportion, as to age, & quality preserved in that division - I wish he would agree to take thirty instead of twenty five; He is well able to settle for them, & I would be answerable for the ultimate payment." Referring to his previous two letters he writes: "I shall be anxious to have answers to the great points on which I have written..." and having listed these points, he concludes: "I write this in the assembly room where there is such an abominable noise that its not possible for me to connect two ideas together." In a postscript he writes: "If the sale takes place, as I negotiated it myself, no commission will be paid. But the Negroes will have to be delivered to Carolina - Parker will make this matter as easy as possible."