Autograph Note Signed Recommending a Colored Man for Jury Duty in Virginia
Petersburg, Virginia: 1872.
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Unbound. Autograph Note dated Oct. 1, 1872 on the letterhead of the United States Internal Revenue Collector's Office in Petersburg, Virginia from Charles P. Ramsdell to U.S. Marshall D.B. Parker: "Sir: John Evans of Prince George Co. is an intelligent Colored man & I should much like to have placed on your jury list for Oct. 7." Marshall Charles P. Ramsdell received mention in the official *Papers of Ulysses S. Grant,* when Grant nominated him to succeeded Parker as U.S. Marshall in 1874. An unusual request for the time.
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