Henry Clay searching for his mother Mathilda Gill
MR. EDITOR: ---- I wish to find out if possible the whereabouts of my mother Mathilda Gill. We were separated in 1843, in Wake connty, North Carolina, when I was about one year old. We belonged to Col. Waddia,, (who was my father). He sold us to Israel Gill. My mother being high tempered, Gill sold her from me to a preacher Rev. Purefil, who carried her to Roseville, where he kept a hotel. When Israel Gill bought mother from Col. Waddia, we lived near Raleigh, N. C., then Gill wandered with me to Texas. Address me at San Felipe, Austin county, Texas, care of Mr. C. H. Graves.
HENRY CLAY.
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