Runaway Slave in Jail.
A MULATTO boy named Emille, born in St. Domingo aged 20
years or thereabouts, five feet six inches high (french measure.)
The said boy states that he used to belong in New-York
to a certain Miss Padirac ; that his mother a free black woman
named Jenny took him away from the said lady’s house to
place him in the service of one Mr. Craig in Tenessee, that he
remained about two years with the said Mr. Craig, who bro’t
him up to the Blacksmith’s trade, and afterwards sold him to
colonel Shelby of Mongtomery county, and the latter to a Mr.
Bell, who had left him to serve his brother some where up the
Mississippi, whence he ran away and came to this country.
B. PUCHE,
Jailer.
March 25.
P. S. The said mulatto was stopped in the parish of Plaquemine.