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Title
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The Liberator (Boston, MA)
Description
An account of the resource
1832, 1836, 1849, 1853
Text
Newspaper advertisements
State
New York
Massachusetts
Virginia
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Title
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John Dipper searching for his brother Daniel Merr
Subject
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Information Wanted Ad
Description
An account of the resource
John Dipper searching for his brother Daniel Merr. Merr left Williamsburg, Virginia, about 40 years earlier [ca 1792]. He was last heard of living in Boston, Massachusetts. Dipper is searching for his brother or Cesar Lafayette, who knew his brother well. An antebellum ad.
Source
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Liberator (Boston, MA)
Date
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April 28, 1832
Contributor
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Jesse Nasta
Coverage
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Boston, MA
Williamsburg, VA
Relation
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New York, NY
Scripto
Transcription
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INFORMATION WANTED.
JOHN DIPPER of Williamsburgh, Va. is anx-
ious [anxious] to obtain information of his brother, Dan-
iel [Daniel] Merr, who left Williamsburgh about 40 years
ago, and was heard of as living in Boston within the
last 17 years. A person by the name of Cesar La-
fayette [Lafayette], of Boston, was well acquainted with Merr.
If either of the above named persons, or any other
able to give such information, would lodge it at the
Liberator office, they would confer a favor on John
Dipper who is now in New-York, anxious to hear
from his brother.
New York, April 21, 1832.
Status
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Weight
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antebellum ad
free people of color
migration (north)
sibling(s)
white newspaper