Craven County, NC - Benjamin & Samuel Sparrow, 1816

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From the Raleigh Star

Atrocious Villainy

A Child Stolen - On the night of Sunday the 10th of March, two men
entered the cabin of a free mulatto woman named Rose Lindsay, on
Neuse, nearly opposite Newbern, and forcibly took away her female
child, named Betsey. The perpetrators of this villainy are believed
to be Samuel and Benjamin Sparrow, who have for some time past been
perpetrating various atrocities, such as stealing Negroes and carrying
them off - the sheriff of Craven lately pursued them with a posse,
when the daring scoundrels fired upon them, wounded several of the
party and escaped - they are perfect outlaws, and their intention
is doubtless to carry off the child and sell her.

This notice is given in the hope that all officers of justice and 
all humane men will keep a look out for this banditt, and if possible
rescue the child and bring the offenders to justice. 

The child is about seven years old, a dark mulatto, one of her lower
fore teeth grows within the gum. Any information communicated to
Thomas H. Davis, Esquire, sheriff of Craven, will probably reach
the mother of the child.

Source: Otsego Herald
        April 11, 1816

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