Document granting James Caller power of attorney to reclaim two slaves who had been stolen from Malachi and Mary Murphee of South Carolina.
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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
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Caller was living in Washington County of the Mississippi Territory (later the Alabama Territory) when the Murphees hired him "to take two Negros Namely Remus & Frank which Thomas Bates and others stold away from us." [Original spelling retained.]
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1804 July 5 1804 07 05
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130Keywords
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Caller, James, 1758 1819
- Lawyers
- Legal Services
- Mississippi (Territory)
- Slaver
- Slavery
- South Carolina