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Charles Deane Letter, Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel Eliot, 1879 Oct. 17, Manuscript 1937.5, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Gift, 1937.
Also available on microfilm (M-1561)
Charles Deane was a merchant with the firm of Waterston, Pray & Company. He retired from the firm in 1864 and devoted himself to the research early American history.
Single letter from Deane to Eliot, apparently answering a question about the introduction of slaves into Virginia.