A letter from J.W. Lugenbeel to John Finley Crowe over donations for Harriet Thompkins. The letter enclosed $30 for Mrs. Thompkins as well as the news that a number of household items would be donated to her cause and shipped...
Thompkin is writing to Crowe to tell him about the area of land he has settled in Liberia, the journey over of which he mentions a small outbreak of smallpox on the ship the Brig Alida, and his family is "injoying good health".
Harriet says she has recieved Crowe's last letter and has been waiting for a boat from New Orleans to reply. She says that he her husband has died and left her with very little money. Harriet asks that Crowe send some clothes...
Meriwether contacts Crowe about paying for the debts of John L. Meriwether. He goes on to talk about the slave trade, colonization, and Liberia. and The Crowe Family Papers Digitization project was made possible in part by the...
Cowan, from the Kentucky Colonization Society, writes to Crowe to discuss the cost of transporting African American to Liberia. He also talks about what they have with them, what they should do, and emirants from New Orleans....
Harriet updates Crowe on her family and life in Liberia. She says one daughter is married, her son Isiah is attending school, and they have found a church in Clay Ashland. She also says that there have been deaths from exposure...
Thompkins (a free man of color) is updating Crowe on his journey through New Orleans to Liberia. He talks about the slaves that he is taking to Liberia.
McLain is writing to Crowe instead of the Rev. because he is in New York proccuring a ship to sail from Savanah "with a company of emigrants for Liberia". McLain wants to make sure that it is correct that the articles sent to...