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Letter written on February 3rd, 1846. Connecticut State Archives: RG 008, State Comptroller Records, Town Claims for State Paupers, Box #1, Folder # 20, 1849, Saybrook

Connecticut State Archives: RG 008, State Comptroller Records, Town Claims for State Paupers, Box #1, Folder # 20, 1849, Saybrook, for support of a sick unnamed “Coloured [sic] Man” in the local almshouse. From the State of Delaware, he is likely a runaway enslaved person.