ANTIQUE 1857 LETTER SLAVE HOLDER JUDGE GEORGE BARTLETT MONTICELLO GA JASPER CO for Sale

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ANTIQUE 1857 LETTER SLAVE HOLDER JUDGE GEORGE BARTLETT MONTICELLO GA JASPER CO For Sale

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ANTIQUE 1857 LETTER SLAVE HOLDER JUDGE GEORGE BARTLETT MONTICELLO GA JASPER CO:
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Please email with any questions. 9 3/4\" by 7 3/4\" faintly lined off-white paper dated September 1857, sent to hardware merchants from George T Bartlett of Monticello who is shocked at the exorbitant freight cost to ship a safe from New York. He was charged $3.00 from New York to Savannah, another $3.00 from Savannah to Gordon and then $3.65 from Gordon to Eatonton. Bartlett calls it \"outrageous extortion\". George T Bartlett was a judge and is shown in the 1860 census to have 47 slaves. Bartlett\'s son Charles L. Bartlett, born in Monticello, Georgia, January 31, 1853, was a graduate of the University of Georgia 1871 and of the University of Virginia 1872. In 1875 he moved to Macon, Georgia and practiced law. He served in both Houses of the Georgia Legislature from Bibb County. He became a member of the United States House of Representatives and served nine consecutive terms (1895-1915).