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[No. 2.] BEDFORD, TRIMBLE CO., KENTUCKY.
_March 4, 1845_.

SIR:--Your letter under date of the 13th ult., is now before
me, making some inquiry about a person supposed to be a
fugitive from the South, "who is lecturing to your religious
community on Slavery and the South."

I am pleased to inform you that I have it in my power to
give you the information you desire. The person spoken of by
you I have no doubt is Walton, a yellow man, who once
belonged to my father, William Gatewood. He was purchased by
him from John Sibly, and by John Sibly of his brother Albert
G. Sibly, and Albert G. Sibly became possessed of him by his
marriage with Judge David White's daughter, he being born
Judge White's slave.

The boy Walton at the time he belonged to John Sibly,
married a slave of my father's, a mulatto girl, and sometime
afterwards solicited him to buy him; the old man after much
importuning from Walton, consented to do so, and accordingly
paid Sibly eight hundred and fifty dollars. He did not buy
him because he needed him, but from the fact that he had a
wife there, and Walton on his part promising every thing
that my father could desire.

It was not long, however, before Walton became indolent and