Runaway Negro in Jail.
AN American negro, named Henderson Jefferson, born in
Kentucky, from 30 to 32 years of age, 5 feet 4 1-2 inches high,
(French measure) having stripes on his back occasioned by
whipping, wearing a brown linnen shirt, a flesh coloured woolen
pantaloon, and a grey surtout, and carrying a bundle of
cloths ; said negro says he belongs to Mr. Harry Sterling residing
at Bayou Sarrah, and came down the river with Mr. Davidson
in a boat loaded with cotton.
B. PUCHE,
Jailor.
October 28.