"A Runaway Negro," Telegraph and Texas Register, July 21, 1838

Summary: A Texas sheriff announced he had captured a runaway supposedly from North Carolina. Described the slave's name, height, age, weight, and several scars over his body. Asked the owner to claim him and pay charges.

TAKEN up by one Solomon Cole in the county of Jefferson, on or about the 1st day of July, 1838 a negro man who calls himself Gabriel, says he belongs to one Virgess of North Carolina, (Wilmington,) about five feet seven inches high about thirty-two years of age, no marks visible except a small scar on his left ear, one on his left hand, suposed to be a burn, three small scars on his face--weighs about one hundred and seventy pounds and affable in his mannersr[sic] The owner is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges and take him away.

Beaument, july 11 42-3m[sic] WM. STEPHENSON. Sh'ff. J.C

Source Copy Consulted: "A Runaway Negro," Telegraph and Texas Register, July 21, 1838, p. 3