Receipt, 1821, for Goods "Bo[ugh]t of Peter Murphy."

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Also includes documentation that suggests this receipt originated from the store owned by Peter Murphy (1791-1827), a native of Ireland, who operated a retail business on King Street in Charleston, S.C.; a witness mentions the location of Murphy's store in the court case brought against Scipio, an enslaved man whose testimony relates to the series of trials that followed the discovery of the insurrection planned by Denmark Vesey; photocopied from the 2017 book, The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History, by Egerton. Douglas R., and ‎Robert L. Paquette (4 pages).