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Thomas Clarkson to the Rev. Thomas Jones 9 July 1789
John Mead Ray to Inhabitants of Coggeshall, Halstead, and Bocking in Essex 19 June 1794
Vassa to Granville Sharp 6 May 1780
Vassa to Josiah Wedgwood November 1788
Vassa to Ann Berry 6 March 1789
Vassa to The Rev. G. Walker and Family 27 February 1792
Vassa to Thomas Hardy 28 May 1792
Vassa to Stanley Pumphrey 1 July 1793
Vassa to Mr. or Mrs. Liversege 20 June 1794
Possible Attribution to Vassa 11 November 1796
Sons of Africa to Quakers in Gracechurch–Court Lombard–Street 21 October 1785
Excerpt of Diary of Katherine Plymley 20 June 1793
Navy Office to Lords Commissioners of the Treasury 27 February 1787
Thomas Boulden Thompson to Navy Board 21 March 1787
Francis Holburne regarding Michael Henry Pascal 5 May 1760
Floorplan for Plaisterers’ Hall 1790
Funeral Entry for Vassa, Whitefield’s Memorial Church [Formerly Tottenham Court Road Chapel] 6 April 1797
Inscription by Edward Papenfuse in the Interesting Narrative, 4th ed., 7 April 1792
Lease for Plaisterers’ Hall 22 April 1789
Marriage Certificate 7 April 1792
Racehorse Muster Book 17 May 1773
Roebuck Muster Book 6 August 1755
Will and Codicil of Vassa 28 May 1796
Captain Skeffington Lutwidge’s Journal of Constantine John Phipps’s Arctic Expedition 1773
Inscription by Vassa in Flyleaf for Granville Sharp Book 13 April 1779
Inscription to T. Bennett in the Interesting Narrative 1829
Jemima Sharp to Granville Sharp 20 February 1811
Entry in the Soham Register for Marriages for Gustavus Vassa and Susannah Cullen 1792
Suzanna Vassa's Will 12 December1795
Ann Berry Release 6 March 1789
Births; District Freetown [13 April 1857 to 12 April 1860]