Continuation of minutes from a special meeting of the African Union Society on November 16, 1789. Page also includes minutes from a quarterly meeting of the African Union Society on February 11, 1790, held in Newport at the house of Arthur Tikey, at which the Society admitted Robert Keith to the society and voted him "sheriff, over the Freemen Africans now at Newport under the name of the African Union Society in the Room & stead of Prince Wanton Esq. late Sheriff, now deceased." Minutes also include a list of sums paid by each member of the society. Vol.1674B, p. 56, Collection of the Newport Historical Society.
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Continuation of minutes from a special meeting of the African Union Society on November 16, 1789. Page also includes minutes from a quarterly meeting of the African Union Society on February 11, 1790, held in Newport at the house of Arthur Tikey, at which the Society admitted Robert Keith to the society and voted him "sheriff, over the Freemen Africans now at Newport under the name of the African Union Society in the Room & stead of Prince Wanton Esq. late Sheriff, now deceased." Minutes also include a list of sums paid by each member of the society. Vol.1674B, p. 56, Collection of the Newport Historical Society.