Davidson County NcArchives News.....Lookout for Murrell Men December 12, 1839
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Dec. 12, 1839   Charlotte Journal December 12, 1839
   -- A few days since, two gentlemen in a carriage came into the neighborhod 
of JOSEPH SPURGEN ESQ. of Davidson county and sold a Negro to MR. JACOB 
YOKELY, for $600. MR. YOKELY paid them in two horses and $100 cash -- after 
which they left the neighborhood. The Negro seemed well pleased with his new 
home until Saturday night last, when he decamped, and has not been heard of 
since. The presumption is, from circumstances, that the whold was designed by 
the Negro and men to swindle MR. YOKELY out of his property. After the men 
left, he was seen to have a $100 bill and some specie. MR. YOKELY is said to 
be an honest, hard-working man, but not so qualified to judge between a Murrel 
man and an honest man. It would be well for some of our honest farmers and 
tradesman to be more on the alert toward strangers trafficking through the 
country, in Negroes and stolen properly. -- West Carolinian

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