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H.G. Tume wrote to John Kean, addressed to Princeton, NJ. He had been expecting a letter from John but never got one. He wrote about some of their mutual friends. He wrote from a plantation in the "mist of the small pox," who he assumed arrived with the recent purchase of Enslaved People.

Author/Creator

H.G. Tume

Recipient

John Kean (1814-1895)

Creation Date

3-1-1834

Document Type

Manuscript

Location

Palmyra

Collection

The Liberty Hall Collection consists of the correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other manuscript material of the Livingston and Kean families, dated from 1739-1847. The bulk of the collection is related to Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz (1759-1833). The Livingston and Kean families frequently corresponded and held accounts with other wealthy, prominent, colonial and early American families in New Jersey, especially Elizabethtown, Philadelphia, New York City, upstate New York, England, France, and Poland. A small portion of the collection includes correspondence with early Virginia families, unrelated to the Livingston and Kean families. The collection includes second hand accounts of enslaved people who were owned by the Kean and other families, offering a glimpse into their forced work and places of residence.

Inventory Location

Bay 1, Column 2, LHC Series 3

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

H.G. Tume to John Kean, March 1, 1834

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