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Collection Number: 05397-z

Collection Title: Jack Hall Letter, 1864

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Abstract Jack Hall seems to have been a slaveholder in Salisbury, N.C., at the time of the Civil War. The collection consists of a letter, 29 December 1864, from Jack Hall of Salisbury, N.C., to H. Reynolds, Esq., requesting flour and asking that Reynolds do all he could to catch Hall's runaway slave Henry. Hall offered a $1,000 reward for Henry's return.
Creator Hall, Jack, fl. 1864.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Jack Hall Letter #5397-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Purchased from Historical Collectible Auctions in July 2008 (Acc. 100961).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Jack Hall seems to have been a slaveholder in Salisbury, N.C., at the time of the Civil War.

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The collection consists of a letter, 29 December 1864, from Jack Hall of Salisbury, N.C., to H. Reynolds, Esq., requesting flour and asking that Reynolds do all he could to catch Hall's runaway slave Henry. Hall offered a $1,000 reward for Henry's return.

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Processing Information

Processed by: Kiley Orchard, May 2010

Encoded by: Kiley Orchard, May 2010

This collection was processed with support from Elizabeth Moore Ruffin.

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