Friday, January 22, 2021

Friend of Friends Friday: Jailor's Notice (1831) (Neo)

Lynchburg Virginian
15 September 1831

JAILOR'S NOTICE.

COMMITTED to the Jail of Rockingham County, N. Carolina, a Negro Fellow, who calls his name NEO, about forty-five years of age, five feet eight or ten inches high, and says he belongs to the minor heirs of Polly Stith, formerly of Prince William County, Virginia, and says that Colonel Jerard Alexander, near Lynchburg, in Virginia, has the management of him. The owner, or manager of said slave, would do well to come forward, prove property, pay charges, and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs.

JAMES WRIGHT, Jailor

of Rockingham County N.C.

Sept. 8 3t*



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