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GB 2014 WS-05-HIC-1 · Item
Parte de Westminster School's Archive and Collections

Manuscript pamphlet entitled: Some remarks on slavery and prize goods recommended to the serious perusal and impartial consideration of the citizens of the united states and others concerned. 9 + 2 leaves (17 pages in length, with the 4 probably being a first draft). Most probably an essay, for a general audience, this text seeks to dismantle slavery by emphasising its immorality, particularly with a rather Platonic series of 'queries' and 'answers' before ending with a rallying call to arms in the form of telling the oppressed to 'pursue emancipation'

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Manuscript response to the receipt of a tract
GB 2014 WS-05-HIC-3 · Item · this time to sometime in `1775' presumably after?
Parte de Westminster School's Archive and Collections

Manuscript response to the receipt of a tract: 'I received as an act of friendship thy offering me the perusal of the treatise intitled the force of truth, written by Thoamas Scott, Yet I have not been able to satisfy my mind as to the motive that induced thee thereto...' 20 leaves

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Letter to Jemima Hicks, marked New Bedford
GB 2014 WS-05-HIC-12 · Item · 1793
Parte de Westminster School's Archive and Collections

Another affectionate letter that he sends before leaving Nantucket that implores his wife to let him know of the 'pain in [her] side' and tells her to send his love as well as an order to 'honour and obey' their mother to his daughters Ph[o]ebe and Abigail.

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Letter to Jemima Hicks, marked New York
GB 2014 WS-05-HIC-31 · Item · 1815
Parte de Westminster School's Archive and Collections

A letter to his wife in which he details his service and his 'Shirts of Liberty Street meeting' where he visited many families; then he asks her to send more letters before giving her instructions on how to take care of a calf they presumably have conversed about previously.

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