Letter from Rossetta Alexander to William Henry Seward, April 11, 1866
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Letter from Rossetta Alexander to William Henry Seward, April 11, 1866
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Date:1866-04-11
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Letter from Rossetta Alexander to William Henry Seward, April 11, 1866
action: sent
sender:
Rossetta Alexander
Person
Name: Rossetta Alexander
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Death:
Person
location:
Macon GA
Place
Name: Macon, Georgia City: Macon
County: Bibb
State: GA
Country: US
Place
receiver:
William Seward
Person
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Person
location:
Washington D.C. DC
Place
Name: City: Washington D.C.
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State: DC
Country: US
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cheap & plenty in Georgia you can
have your own agent leave to
do this for me you must of
course know whether I have any
right to call on you delicacy
forbids me from going into
particulars in this case; I will
if you require it give you
all the evidence of the truth of
what I have said My Mother
knows more of the case than any
other person I am affectionately
Yours,
Rossetta Alexander
I write myself my good mistress
Name: Elizabeth Alexander
Birth: 1784-08-13
Death: 1833-09-13
taught me to read & write
I forgot to say I am nearly white
My Mothers Name was Milly


Rossetta Alexander
Macon
Georgia
Macon Georgia 11th April 1866
Honl William H Seward
This communication may excite much
surprise & possibly indignation, I beg you
to read without either, for nearly
forty five years I have been a
slave & therefore I had no chance
to assert my rights, & claim my real
Paternity, I was born the slave & property
of Majr William Alexander
Name: William Alexander
Birth: 1780-03-11
Death: 1857-03-13
of Putnam
County with whence you lived while
you was in Georgia
Name: City:
County:
State:
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. My Mother
Name: Milly Alexander
Birth:
Death:
&
my old Master who is now dead
always said you was my Father. I
do not know whether I was born
before or after you left Georgia. I
have been taught to claim you as
my Father from my childhood now
since my race have been freed
and emancipated by the result of the
war, I feel that I have a right
to call on you for aid, I have been
the Mother of eleven children have six
now to support & we are all very
poor both black & white I appeal to you
as a man high in position rich in
means to aid me with money to
buy me a little house land is
Page 2Honl William H Seward
This communication may excite much
surprise & possibly indignation, I beg you
to read without either, for nearly
forty five years I have been a
slave & therefore I had no chance
to assert my rights, & claim my real
Paternity, I was born the slave & property
of Majr William Alexander
Person
County with whence you lived while
you was in Georgia
Place
Person
my old Master who is now dead
always said you was my Father. I
do not know whether I was born
before or after you left Georgia. I
have been taught to claim you as
my Father from my childhood now
since my race have been freed
and emancipated by the result of the
war, I feel that I have a right
to call on you for aid, I have been
the Mother of eleven children have six
now to support & we are all very
poor both black & white I appeal to you
as a man high in position rich in
means to aid me with money to
buy me a little house land is
cheap & plenty in Georgia you can
have your own agent leave to
do this for me you must of
course know whether I have any
right to call on you delicacy
forbids me from going into
particulars in this case; I will
if you require it give you
all the evidence of the truth of
what I have said My Mother
knows more of the case than any
other person I am affectionately
Yours,
Rossetta Alexander
I write myself my good mistress
Person
taught me to read & write
I forgot to say I am nearly white
My Mothers Name was Milly
Unknown
ROSSETTA ALEXANDERUnknown
April 11/ 68Rossetta Alexander
Macon
Georgia
date:
Wednesday, April 11, 1866
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