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From: "Nancy Baldwin" <>
Subject: Fw: [INSCOTT] Benjamin Whitson author b. 1759
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:46:28 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Baldwin" <>
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Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [INSCOTT] Benjamin Whitson author b. 1759


> The entry you asked for, George. I forwarded your email to a friend who
> collects all Indiana Authors and information on them. She replied with a
> hard-copy from the book you mentioned. I have transcribed the info below
> and will send you the hard copy if you will email me your snail mail
> address.
>
> Perhaps you already have received this info, but just in case you didn't I
> am replying anyway.
>
> Nancy Baldwin
>
> WHITSON, BENJAMIN: 1759 -
> [Does not list a death date]
>
> From an advertisement in the WESTERN EAGLE, Dec 23, 1815: "The above work
> was wrote in and for the use of Kentucky, yet it seems providential that
it
> should make its first appearance in the Territory [Indiana]; and at a time
> when we are on the eve of entering into state government." In the WESTERN
> EAGLE, Jan 6, 1816, Whitson, in a letter to the inhabitants of Jefferson
> County, offers himself as a candidate for a place on the Indiana
> constitutional convention. In one of its book catalogs, Book Tracts,
Inc.,
> Indianapolis, says, "Whitson (b. 1759) came to Indiana from the Carolinas
by
> way of Trimble County, Ky. Whitson wrote this book to explain and defend
> his anti-slavery position. African Slavery appears to be the earliest
> anti-slavery tract printed in Indiana."
>
> Information from Eric Pumroy.
>
> African Slavery Turned Upside Down, to Which is Added a Letter to a
Friend,
> or "The Moniter" Admonished. Lexington, Ind., 1815.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 6:55 AM
> Subject: [INSCOTT] Benjamin Whitson author b. 1759
>
>
> > Does anyone have access to a book compiled by Donald E. Thompson titled
> > Indiana Authors and Their Books (biographical sketches of authors who
> > published during the first century of Indiana Statehood with lists of
> their
> > books)?
> >
> > I would like a copy of the entry for Benjamin Whitson b. 1759. If
anyone
> can
> > help, I would be very grateful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Georgia Whitson
> >
> >
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