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Letter from Elias Hicks to Joseph Lawrence concerning procuring the freedom of Far Rockaway, N.Y. slave Pompy, belonging to Adam Mott/ Jericho, N.Y., March 22, 1790. Hicks, of Jericho, N.Y., requests assistance from Lawrence, of Bayside, Flushing (Queens County, N.Y.), in procuring freedom of slave Pompy, his wife, and youngest child; Hicks mentions acquiantance of his, Benjamin Birdsall, has offered financial support.