Park Street letter to Joseph C. Cabell(1819 July 30)
- MS 2012.4
- 1 item
Letter of Park Street dated July 30, 1819, Hanover County Virginia, to Joseph C. Cabell in Warminster, Nelson County, Virginia. Street, an attorney, writes concerning a ring of thieves operating in the vicinity of Hanover. He writes that the thieves had stolen a female slave from him and that he learned of their crimes from an aged and poor woman familiar with their crimes. The woman agreed to testify against the ring but passed away before that could happen, leaving the community at the mercy of the thieves.