Response to Rutherford’s advertisement
WHEREAS it might appear, from an advertisement of Mr. John
Rutherford’s, in the Royal Gazette, that I had interfered in his
concerns improperly. I submit the following to the public.
THO. BERRY.
Ann Higgins, a negro, and Eleanor Glass, a mulatto,
Appears by the oath of Elizabeth Colebrook, taken this day
before Robert Forrester, Esq. that they are the issue, that is to
say, daughter and grand-daughter, of Ann Higgins, otherwise
called Passage-For Nanny, who was a free coman forty years
ago and upwards.
The above is a Copy of a Record in the Vestry Books of Kingston,
dated the 17th Jan. 1775.
I, Thomas Salt, do swear, that my late uncle, James Rutherford,
always considered the woman named Friendship, alias
Ann Higgins, free, and that he has told me so, and I have also
understodd, and do very believe, she was the daughter of the
above named Ann Higgins, alias passage-Fort Nanny.
THOMAS SALT.