Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Peekskill (N.Y.), to Charlotte Phelps, March 23. 1835

In a letter written to his wife, Charlotte, from Peekskill on March 23, Amos A. Phelps says he read “John Newton’s life, letters,” and expresses his distaste for the religious sentiments with which the slave trader engaged in his “hellish” business. In the part written in Poughkeepsie on March 28, he discusses their domestic arrangements (made for their stay in Farmington for the summer), and his plans to go to Albany, Boston, and then, Wrentham to pack. He then talks about ministers at Poughkeepsie (“I know I should love to drive the devil out of such a village and make conquest of it for God”).
Courtesy of Boston Public Library