Identity area
Reference code
Clarkson/Folder 9/Doc 201
Unique identifier
GB 275 Clarkson/Folder 9/Doc 201
Title
ALS from W. Peete Musgrave to Granville Sharp, from Cambridge.
Date(s)
- 29 Sept. 1792 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 p. paper
Context area
Name of creator
(fl 1792)
Biographical history
W. Peete Musgrave was a prosperous whig tailor and woollen draper of Cambridge.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchased from Samuel Gedge, 2016.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Musgrave writes in response to a letter from Clarkson requesting that he should advise the Committee of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade of anyone who could give evidence on the slave trade. The bearer of this letter, a sailor called Peacock, had been first mate on a slave ship for the last four years and had been in Africa, South America and the East and West Indies. He wishes them success in their "generous exertions in favor of the oppressed". Peacock clearly delivered the letter, as it is endorsed in red ink by Granville Sharp on receipt.