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David Ramsay wrote to John Kean in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ramsay informed Kean that Mr. Abendenons would likely trouble him in transferring his certificates to Charleston. An advertisement was published in the newspapers that called on the stockholders to meet to nominate bank officers. Suggested bank officers should immediately decide on the question of branches. Hoped that South Carolina would no longer be a depressed state and abounded in money exports and every species of wealth. Sincerely wished that the importation of African Americans would end. Ramsay claimed that the alarms and insurrections of the West Indies would likely be repeated in South Carolina if the African American population increased. This was a reference to the 1791 slave revolts in Saint Domingue [later Haiti] which resulted in a large number of white refugees migrating to Charleston.) Ramsay noted in the postscript that since he wrote the above, the election for the bank officers had finished. He enclosed the reports along with the advertisement on which the election proceeded.

People mentioned: Joseph Abendanon

Author/Creator

David Ramsay

Recipient

John Kean (1756-1795)

Creation Date

1792-04-08

Creation Date

4-8-1792

Document Type

Manuscript

Location

Unknown location

Collection

Liberty Hall Collection, 1711-1847 (bulk 1790-1830)

Inventory Location

Bay 1, Column 1, LHC Series 2

Rights

This collection is open to the public for research use. Copyright remains with Kean University. Credit this material. Personal photographs may be made for research purposes. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to Lynette Zimmerman, Executive Director at the Liberty Hall Academic Center & Exhibition Hall at lzimmerm@kean.edu.

Publishing Repository

Special Collections Research Library and Archive, Kean University

David Ramsay to John Kean, April 8, 1792

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