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Four page LS by William Ferguson Colcock, United States Congressmen from South Carolina. During the Civil War he served as Collector of the Port of Charleston (a position he held under both the Federal and Confederate Governments). After the Civil War he had a law practice in the Beaufort area with his son-in-law, Charles Jones Colcock Hutson. The Colcock-Hutson collection of books is in the University of South Carolina School of Law. In this letter William is writing his son, Cornelius, who would eventually join his father’s law practice.
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