Volume III Part 32 (1/2)
”Ranaway, my mulatto boy Cy, has but _one hand_, all the fingers of his right hand were _burnt off_ when young.”
J.A. Brown, jailer, Orangeburg, South Carolina, in the ”Charleston Mercury,” July 18, 1838.
”Was committed to jail, a negro named Bob, appears to be _crippled_ in the right leg.”
S.B. Turton, jailer, Adams Co. Miss. in the ”Natchez Courier,” Sept.
29, 1838.
”Was committed to jail, a negro man, has his _left thigh broke_.”
Mr. John H. King, High street, Georgetown, in the ”National Intelligencer,” August 1, 1837.
”Ranaway, my negro man, he has the _end of one_ of his fingers _broken_.”
Mr. John B. Fox, Vicksburg, Miss. in the ”Register,” March 29, 1837.
”Ranaway, a yellowish negro boy named Tom, has a _notch_ in the back of one of his ears.”
Messrs. Fernandez and Whiting, auctioneers, New Orleans, in the ”Bee,”
April 8, 1837.
”Will be sold Martha, aged nineteen, _has one eye out_.”
Mr. Marshall Jett, Farrowsville, Fauquier Co. Virginia, in the ”National Intelligencer,” May 30, 1837.
”Ranaway, negro man Ephraim, has a _mark_ over one of his eyes, occasioned by a _blow_.”
S.B. Turton, jailer Adams Co. Miss. in the ”Natches Courier,” Oct. 12, 1838.
”Was committed a negro, calls himself Jacob, has been _crippled_ in his right leg.”
John Ford, sheriff of Mobile County, in the ”Mississippian,” Jackson Mi. Dec. 28, 1838.
”Committed to jail, a negro man Cary, a _large scar on his forehead_.”
E.W. Morris, sheriff of Warren County, in the ”Vicksburg [Mi.]
Register,” March 28, 1838.
”Committed as a runaway, a negro man Jack, he has _several scars_ on his face.”
Mr. John P. Holcombe, In the ”Charleston Mercury,” April 17, 1828.