Committed to the Work-House,
A NEGRO man, named Tom Copland, alias George, alias
Shedwick ; he is 5 feet 4 ¾ inches high, about 21 years of age, has a scar near the centre of his forehead, is clothed in a red
flannel shirt, blue trowsers and a black hat. He shipped himself
at Norfolk, in Virginia, as a seaman on board the sch. Industry,
Nash Dacost master, of Dartmouth, state of Massachusetts,
bound to Charleston ; but not having any papers to prove his
freedom, and seeing a Fellow answering his description advertised
in a Norfolk paper of the 18th of May, as having broke
out of Gaol, (being committed for not having freedom papers)
he, the said Master, thought proper to have committed here.
July ; says he belongs to the Estate of Wm. Sinclair, deceased
; he is 5 feet 4 ½ inches high, about 22 years of age, has his
country marks on his temples and breast, his front teeth filed
— clothed in a white negro cloth jacket and trowsers, with
mettle buttons.
Toby ; says, as well as can be understood, that he did belong to
a Mr John Dawson, and that he is dead ; he is 5 feet high, his
upper front teeth filed, and has lost part of the third finger of
his right hand, is about 35 years of age, has his country marks
on his breast and belly — no clothing, but a piece of old green
baize round his waist.
Daniel Ward, M. W. H.
July 8.