Letter containing news of Nat Turner's rebellion

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A letter from Eleanor Wayland Weaver in Madison County, Virginia, to her daughter Theodosia and son-in-law Jacob in Lewisburg, Ohio, sent January 6, 1832. The letter discusses Nat Turner's rebellion, writing: "Dear Son + Daughter, You appeared to be very much alarmed about us respecting the Negroes rising we have no cause of alarm at present but how soon we can't say. all the mischief done was confined to one county in the lower part of this state the County of Southampton. There was about 67 persons old & young put to death by about eight or ten Negroes ring leaders & some few they forced to assit them. Say from 20 to thirty headed by a Negro preacher. All the murders was done in about 24 hours.

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