Description
Negro Taken Up. - - Taken up in St. Joseph, Missouri, April 15, 1859, one Negro Boy, named Jim, aged about 25 years, about 5 feet 10 inches high, weight 180 or 190 pounds: says he belongs to Frank Roulett of Lunenburg County, Virginia, and says he left his master in the month of October last. He is a dark copper color, has a scar on his left thumb caused by the cogs of a steam saw mill. Said boy has round features and is very sprightly.
Unless said Frank Roulett or his owner comes forward within 3 months from the date of this advertisement, and proves said slave and pays all charges the said Negro Boy Jim will be exposed for sale at the Court House door in the City of St. Joseph, County of Buchanan, Missouri, for cash in hand; which said sale will be on the 15th day of July, A. D. 1859, between the hours of 9 o’clock a.m. and 5 o’clock p.m. of said day. M. D. Morgan, Sheriff, Buchanan County.
St. Louis Evening News and Glasgow (Missouri) Times, copy three months weekly and send bill to this office.
(Researcher’s note: see entry 01/01/1860: The Kansas Narrative of John Doy, Chapter XVI The Jail at St. Joseph - Further Incidents of The Slave-Trade, p. 96-98, for John Doy’s description of meeting “Jim” a/k/a Berkeley, his apprehension by the Sheriff of Buchanan County and his eventual sale at auction and “sent down the river.”)Date(s) of Creation
5/11/1859
