Other (McIntosh/Warren)

On April 23, 1802, a letter  from Alexander McIntosh to W. Elias Warren, dated November 29, 1801, was recorded in Liberty County Superior Court. The letter stated that Mr.. Oneall had asked him to write it because Oneall had sold “a Negro man named Cooper” to Mr. Fielder, who had heard a rumor since then that Cooper had been mortgaged to McIntosh [thus making him ineligible for sale]. McIntosh assured Warren that “on Mr. Onealls arrival here last spring he payed me and redeemed said fellow and I have no claim whatever on said fellow.” He apologized for troubling Warren with a matter that had nothing to do with him “but as you are acquainted with me & I am told you and Mr. Fielder married two sisters,” he asked him to convey this message to Fielder. Lachlan McIntosh probated the letter’s handwriting on April 16, 1802.