[Letter] 30 January 1843, Charleston, SC [to] Respected Sir [John W. Mitchell] / Elizabeth Mushington

Mushington writes to Mitchell in concern of an affidavit presented to Mitchell regarding her father being "the Descedant of an Indian Woman and A White Man." Mushington, in need of her father's documentation for future court proceedings, ask if Mitchell could provide her with a certificate confirming her father's ancestry. The mayor has postponed decisions on her family's case until the documentation can be obtained, so she expresses this need is dire.