(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN) LEWIS WARNER JUNIOR Manuscript letter to

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(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN.) LEWIS, WARNER, JUNIOR. Manuscript letter to Brigadier General George Weedon, seeking the return of his slaves. 1 page, 8vo, with integral address leaf; seal hole, minor foxing. [Abingdon, Gloucester County, VA?], 20 September 1781

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Large numbers of slaves were pressed into support of the American army in the Yorktown campaign. Here, a plantation owner presses to have his own slaves returned. He has heard a rumor that "every person's Negroes would be delivered up at this time, on application being made." He requests, "as my father and myself have a great many there," for permission to come and collect them. As the Siege of Yorktown was almost underway, Weedon would have been reluctant to release any men--slave or free--from camp at that time.
Warner Lewis was a former Virginia militia captain who was then convalescing at his home plantation; he apologized for "getting a person to write for me, as I am so unwell as not to be able to do it myself."