Jailor’s Notice – Shelby County
WAS committed to this jail on the 21st March, 1840, a negro man about 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high, weighs about 140, of dark brown complexion, had on a white blanket coat and yarn pants, calls his name TOM, and belongs to James Woods, of Hardeman co., Tenn. [illegible].
ALSO, on the 23d, a boy about 40 or 45 years of age, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, weighs about 144, very black, a little bald headed, a tooth out before, had on white linsey pants and black round coat, calls his name PETER, and says he belongs to Stephen Rutlan[?] of Desoto county, Miss.
W.P. REEVES, Jailor
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