Volume III Part 28 (1/2)
”Ranaway William, _scar_ over his left eye, one between his eye brows, one on his breast, and his right leg has been _broken_.”
Mr. B.G. Simmons, in the ”Southern Argus,” May 30, 1837.
”Ranaway Mark, his left arm has been _broken_.”
Mr. James Artop, in the ”Macon [Ga.] Messenger, May 25, 1837.
”Ranaway, Caleb, 50 years old, has an awkward gait occasioned by his being _shot_ in the thigh.”
J.L. Jolley, Sheriff of Clinton, Co. Mi. in the ”Clinton Gazette,”
July 23, 1836.
”Was committed to jail a negro man, says his name is Josiah, his back very much scarred by the whip, and _branded on the thigh and hips, in three or four places_, thus (J.M.) the _rim of his right ear has been bit or cut off_.”
Mr. Thomas Ledwith, Jacksonville East Florida, in the ”Charleston [S.C.] Courier, Sept. 1, 1838.
”Fifty dollars reward, for my fellow Edward, he has a _scar_ on the corner of his mouth, two _cuts_ on and under his arm, and the _letter E on his arm_.”
Mr. Joseph James, Sen., Pleasant Ridge, Paulding Co. Ga., in the ”Milledgeville Union,” Nov. 7, 1837.
”Ranaway, negro boy Ellie, has a _scar_ on one of his arms _from the bite of a dog_.”
Mr. W. Riley, Orangeburg District, South Carolina, in the ”Columbia [S.C.] Telescope,” Nov. 11, 1837.
”Ranaway a negro man, has a _scar_ on the ankle produced by a _burn_, and a _mark on his arm_ resembling the letter S.”
Mr. Samuel Mason, Warren Co, Mi. in the ”Vicksburg Register,” July 18, 1838.”
”Ranaway, a negro man named Allen, he has a scar on his breast, also a scar under the left eye, and has _two buck shot in his right arm_.”
Mr. F.L.C. Edwards, in the ”Southern Telegraph”, Sept. 25, 1837
”Ranaway from the plantation of James Surgette, the following negroes, Randal, _has one ear cropped_; Bob, _has lost one eye_, Kentucky Tom, _has one jaw broken_.”
Mr. Stephen M. Jackson, in the ”Vicksburg Register”, March 10, 1837.
”Ranaway, Anthony, _one of his ears cut off_, and his left hand cut with an axe.”
Philip Honerton, deputy sheriff of Halifax Co. Virginia, Jan. 1837.