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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C A1 E2/140a [140]
TitleLetter from Renner to Secretary: 24 March 1812: Bashia
Extent1 doc.
Date1812
DescriptionHe quotes a letter from James Biggs, Attorney General, who is empowered by Governor Maxwell to collect evidence of slave trading, asking for Renner and Wenzel's cooperation, and giving his reply. He applauds the object but feels that his missionary work would suffer by his open opposition to the slavers. The natives feel that they benefit by the trade.
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionE2: The numbers are original numbers and the first 17 documents bear either one or two crossed-out numbers as well. Several numbers are missing and so marked and several documents had been previously transferred to other series and are so marked.

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