Committed to the Work-House,
AS RUNAWAYS :
THREE Africans — Johnny, Coco, and Opo. They cannot tell
the names of their owners.
Johnny is 5 feet 5 ½ inches high, about 30 years old, has his
country marks down his temples and cheek, his upper front
teeth filed ; has on a white negro cloth jacket and trowsers, and
a blue woollen cap.
Coco is 5 feet 1 ¼ inches high, about 25 years old, has his
country marks down his temples and on his belly ; clothed in
an osnaburgs shirt, jacket and trowsers of white negro cloth,
with mettle buttons.
Oppo [deux p ; un seul avant], is 5 feet 2 ¾ inches high, is
about 23 years old, has his country marks on his temples and
breast, his upper front teeth filed ; is clothed in an osnaburgs
shirt and jacket, and trowsers of white negro cloth, with mettle
buttons.
Also, three country born Negroes :
Moses, says he belongs to Miss Jane Barton, of St. Stephen’s
Parish ; he is 5 feet 6 inches high, is about 30 years old, clothed
with a white negro cloth great coat and old ragged trowsers,
has large scars on his breast.
Scipio says he belongs to Thomas Blackledge, near the Four
Holes ; he is 5 feet 2 ¾ inches high, about 42 years old, has on
jacket and shirt of homespun and a pair of old blue nankeen
pantaloons.
Jack, a stout mulatto man, says he belongs to Joel Adams, on
the Congaree, about 30 miles from Columbia ; he is 5 feet 9
inches high, about 23 years old, a carpenter by trade.
D. Ward, M. W. H.
September 2.