ABSTRACT
In the 4th month, 1802, Joseph Ennells 2 and a Capt. Frazier, of Dorset County, Maryland, dealers in slaves, having purchased several running, (that is, those who had left their masters’ service,) came to Philadelphia in pursuit of them. Those men brought with them a free mulatto man, who called himself David, alias Sam, to assist them in searching for the fugitives. In the course of their searches, they met with William Bachelor, a respectable colored man, about sixty years old, whom they claimed as the property of Ennells. They arrested him and took him before John Barker, an Alderman, where appeared David, alias Sam, who declared, on his oath, that he knew the man they had arrested, and who called himself Wm. Bachelor, perfectly well; that he (Sam) had at one time been overseer of a company of slaves, and that the man then before the magistrate was one of them, but that he had changed his name, and that his real name was not Wm. Bachelor.
