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| Keywords: From Deborah Weston to Anne Warren Weston; Sunday, January 1, 1837 p2.jpg Page p 2 Call Number Ms A 9 2 v 9 n 1 Format Autograph Letter Signed Extent 4 p 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in Creator Weston Deborah 1814-1889 Date of creation 1837-01-01 Place of creation New Bedford MA Recipient Weston Anne Warren 1812-1890 BPL department Rare Books Transcription they were reading the bible and during the first prayer we heard a great pounding in the vestry beneath afterwards Mr Emerson said that they were putting up props for the iron pillars which supported the floor bent considerable out of the perpendicular In ten minutes more if it had been left to itself we should all have been down together When the people rose in prayer time the workmen beneath ran out thinking that every thing was coming down In the afternoon I went petitioning was almost blown away worst of all I lost my little pearl pin I felt very bad about it till people began to ask me if I was not sorry that I went petitioning I assured them that this was a cause in which every thing must be sacrificed the pin must go with the rest I went to William Rodman ™s saw Anna who refused in the sweetest manner possible said that her mother was out but that she heard her say a day or two before that she thought she should not sign Most of the people to whom I went that afternoon were out so saturday I tried it again Mrs Grinnell at the stone house signed as did Mrs Roberts The Swains Mrs John Forbes folks refused in the shortest way of any that I have seen Mrs Sam Rodman had a little rather not put her name to the paper but hoped that I would not think that it was from any want of interest in the cause Made many inquiries and talked of Ben Luindy Mrs Charles Morgan who has just been confined sent down word that she had signed it Mrs Jo Rotch Mrs Angier who were both engaged refused Dr Whittredge ™s folks refused Flickr data on 2011-08-02 Camera Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW Sinar m Tags dc identifier 08_07_000002 License CC BY 2 0 User Boston Public Library BPL Flickr http //flickr com/photos/24029425 N06/2652302543 From Deborah Weston to Anne Warren Weston; Sunday January 1 1837 2008-07-08 15 37 58 Weston Deborah 1814-1889 PD-old-100 User Flickr upload bot/upload 23 31 2 August 2011 UTC Fæ CC BY 2 0 Deborah Weston anti-slavery letters Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script Taken with Sinarback 54 | ||||
