[Excerpts from the "Hillsborough Recorder", April 5, 1820] [Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina] [transcribed by Mark Murphy, 7 May 2001] Vol.1, No. 9, Wednesday, April 5, 1820 ------- Notice: The attention of the public is requested in the following statement. On the evening of Saturday the 19th instant, the house of the subscriber, on Swift Creek, was entered during her absence, by John Bryan, and a free mulattoe girl named Dicey Moore, the daughter of Lydia Moore, was forcibly taken and carried away in a chair by the said Bryan. It is believed that he has a forged bill of sale for the girl, purporting to have been executed by her mother, and it is feared that he has carried the girl to the south, with the intention of selling her. Dicey Moore has lived with the subscriber ever since she was fifteen months old, and the fact of her freedom can be proved beyond the possibility of a doubt. She is now about seventeen years old, five feet high, with a yellowish complexion, black bushy hair, and wears rings in her ears. Bryan is about six feet high has blue eyes, is a little round shouldered, and has a long nose. The editors of southern papers are requested to give the foregoing as insertions in their respective papers, as possibly it may save from a state of slavery this girl, who has unquestionable right to her freedom. Catherine Free, Swift Creek, Craven County, February 25, 1820. -------- Paris, February 17 When Louvel was interrogated on Monday, by the minister of the interior, why, if he did not fear death, had he fled after assassinating the prince--he replied cooly-- In order that he might be able to kill another. ----- The London Statesman asserts, that Louis XVIII, will not send any troops to the frontiers of Spain. ---- Married, In Wayne county, on the 14th ult. Mr. Bartholemew Crab, in the 66th year of his age, to Miss Susan Candy, aged 16. On the 8th March, at the seat of col. J.T. Avery, Mr. John Murphey, to Miss Margaret S. Avery, all of Burke county. ----- Died, In Franklin county, on the 20th ult. Mrs. Sally Harrison, consort of Wm. Harrison, Esq. merchant, after a long and tedious affliction of nearly 6 months. She has left an afflicted and disconsolate husband, and five children to morn over the loss sustained by death of an affectionate wife and truly indulgent mother. ---- Houses and Lots in Hillsborough for sale, adjoining the widow Childs, and others. I will give a great bargain on them, as I have no use for them. The situation is elegant, and would answer well for a tavern. They are twelve acre lots. Also a strong young Negro fellow, a good farmer, and can work at, the carpenter's business. Also a new waggon and geers; never used. To prevent trouble, the house where I live will not be sold. Barnabas O'Farril, April 3. ----- 30 Dollars Reward. Ran away from Johnston county, NC. on the 2d instant, Kimbre Vinson and Larkin Vinson, aged about twenty-two and fourteen years. They carried off with them five Negroes, viz. Jack, aged about forty-two, a woman aged about twenty-six, and three children, boys, the eldest about five years of age. Jack is about five feet eleven inches high; the woman is over the common size, and far advanced in pregnancy. They carried off with them a old chair, both shafts broken, and a small poor bay mare, with a blaze face. It is supposed they are aiming for Georgia or Alabama. Thirty dollars will be given by us for securing the Negroes so that we get them again, and all reasonable charges paid. Samuel G. Smith, Ray Helms Should the above described Negroes be caught or heard of, we wish information to be given to the post master at Smithfield, N.C. March 25, 1820. [end of extract]