eighteen months, with the intention, as I have since
learned, of conducting off his wife and eight or ten more
slaves to Canada.

I got news of his whereabouts, and succeeded in recapturing
him. I took him to Louisville and together with his wife and
child, (she going along with him at her owner's request,)
sold him. He was taken from thence to New Orleans--and from
hence to Red River, Arkansas--and the next news I had of him
he was again wending his way to Canada, and I suppose now is
at or near Detroit.

In relation to his character, it was the general opinion
here that he was a notorious liar, and a rogue. These
things I can procure any number of respectable witnesses to
prove.

In proof of it, he says his mother belonged to James Bibb,
which is a lie, there not having been such a man about here,
much less brother of Secretary Bibb. He says that Bibb's
daughter married A.G. Sibly, when the fact is Sibly married
Judge David White's daughter, and his mother belonged to
White also and is now here, free.

So you will perceive he is guilty of lying for no effect,
and what might it not be supposed he would do where he could
effect anything by it.

I have been more tedious than I should have been, but being
anxious to give you his rascally conduct in full, must be my