consideration of two hundred and fifty dollars of the money already paid;
and her I determined to take with me to the North. The costs of court
which I had to meet, amounted to between thirty and forty dollars, besides
the fee of my lawyer.

On the 18th of May, 1841, three days after the court commenced its
session, I bid adieu to my friends in Raleigh, and set out for the city of
New York. I took with me a letter of introduction and recommendation from
Mr. John Primrose, a very estimable man, a recommendatory certificate from
Mr. Battle, and a letter from the church of which I was a member,
together with such papers relating to the affair as I had in my
possession. Also I received the following:

RALEIGH, N.C. May, 1841.

The bearer, Lunsford Lane, a free man of color, for some time a resident
in this place, being about to leave North Carolina in search of a more
favorable location to pursue his trade, has desired us to give him a
certificate of his good conduct heretofore.

We take pleasure in saying that his habits are temperate and
industrious, that his conduct has been orderly and proper, and that he
has for these qualities been distinguished among his caste.

Wm. Hill, R. Smith,
Weston R. Gales, C. Dewey.
C.L. Hinton,


The above was certified to officially in the usual form by the clerk of