Committed to the Work-House,
AS RUNAWAYS :
TWO likely Negro Lads, about 13 or 14 years of age, named
Meadows and Allick, say they belong to O. D. Dwight, of
Waccamaw. Meadows is 5 feet 9 inches high, has on negro
cloth jacket and trowsers, dyed yellow, branded on his breast
O. D. D.
An African, says his name is Sam, but cannot tell his owners
name ; he is 5 feet 2 inches high, about 18 or 19 years old, has
his country marks on the back of his neck, arms and breast,
and from other marks appear to have been lately corrected ; his
upper front teeth are filed, clothed in blue striped homespun
trowsers and part of an old jacket.
An African Boy, of the Congo nation, taken up by the city
guard, and committted by Edward Weyman, Esq. C. W. He was
left some months ago at a Mrs. Fausts, in whose possession he
was to the 15th inst. the time he was taken by the guard. Mrs
F. says she advertised him in one of the Gazettes of the city
— the boy accounts of himself (as from an interpreter) is, that
he was stolen from the wharf with another of the same age,
that they arrived here in a ship commanded by a capt. Clark, a
French gentleman ; when taken from the wharf he was clothed
in a red flannel shirt, bue trowsers and a blue cap, he has on
now only a brown Holland pair of trowsers.
An African, who cannot tell his own nor his owners name ; he
is 5 feet 1 inch high, about 13 years old, his upper front teeth
filed, has on a blue jacket lined with white flannel, and the
remains of a pair of old osnaburg trowsers ; he is very low in
flesh.
Daniel Ward, M. W. H.
August 2.