Letter; 27 September 1800, Philadelphia, Esther Cox to Mary Chesnut

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Cox, Esther

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27 September 1800, Philad[elphi]a, E[sther] Cox, to Mary Chesnut, Camden, S.C. (bad weather prevented John Chesnut, Sr., from sitting for [Gilbert] Stuart at Germantown, re "frightful accounts of an Insurrection by the Negroes at Charleston, but upon investigation, tis not so bad," M.C.'s letters did not mention it, referring to some dreadful event in Virginia., mentioning "a sad derangement" among her domestics and Mr. Chesnut's opinion that "we are not so well off in these States as you are," and suggesting that her disinclination to visit next year due to "the expectation of another increase of family").

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