LEROY GAZETTE Wednesday Morning, September 8, 1858 Dispatches have been forwarded to the U.S. Marshal at Charleston to remove the recently captured slaves to Fort Sumpter, about five miles from Charleston. Arrangements, it is said, will soon be made By Government to send the unfortunate back to Africa. They are in deplorable condition, many of them suffering from dysentery, and twelve have already died since the capture of the Putnam. The Charleston Courier says the negroes are mostly young, apparently not more than fifteen years of age. *** -- Cindy Amrhein Town of Alabama Historian Genesee Co., NY ********************** Historian's Page - Alabama, NY http://www2.pcom.net/cinjod/historian/ Experience the town of Alabama in Genesee County, New York. History, tombstone inscriptions, census records, history of the Tonawanda Seneca Indians and the Iroquois. Enjoy a good murder mystery? Read about the murders of Polly Frisch. APHNYS (The Association of Public Historians of New York State) http://www.tier.net/aphnys/ Genesee County, NY website. Includes History Department, (under "Historian") http://www.co.genesee.ny.us/ The Genesee Area Genealogy Society lists the names and addresses for all the Genesee & Wyoming County Historians http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygags/hist.htm