"Ranaway, my negro man, he has the end of one of his fingers broken."
Mr. John B. Fox, Vicksburg, Miss. in the "Register," March 29, 1837.
"Ranaway, a yellowish negro boy named Tom, has a notch in the back of one of his ears."
Messrs. Fernandez and Whiting, auctioneers, New Orleans, in the "Bee," April 8, 1837.
"Will be sold Martha, aged nineteen, has one eye out."
Mr. Marshall Jett, Farrowsville, Fauquier Co. Virginia, in the "National Intelligencer," May 30, 1837.
"Ranaway, negro man Ephraim, has a mark over one of his eyes, occasioned by a blow."
S.B. Turton, jailer Adams Co. Miss. in the "Natches Courier," Oct. 12, 1838.
"Was committed a negro, calls himself Jacob, has been crippled in his right leg."
John Ford, sheriff of Mobile County, in the "Mississippian," Jackson Mi. Dec. 28, 1838.