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Letter from Sarah Gibbes to John Gibbes
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Letter from Sarah Gibbes to John Gibbes

1783 Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Antebellum (1820-1861)

A letter from Sarah Gibbes to her son John Gibbes (Class of 1784) in which she encourages him to maintain ties to the Boudinots and Stocktons, wealthy New Jersey families. 

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Sarah Gibbes to John Gibbes, 1783, Gibbes Family Papers, Box 11, Folder 151/7, South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C. 

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South Carolina Historical Society

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