The Cape Fear Mercury

              wednesday september 21^1773 numb 19c y ty anvstole a surtout coat a beaver hat a pair of leather i\r • " c jjlolulh jacket a t&ir of thread stockings a knife \ jvte&s chiflel a r - ?.~ ij ana . fleulder of pork william marfaulr and itiylelt stol from b jirnel parfons thirty eight poiuid of baron ; ard from samjci cornell two harrels of corn : ve made an attempt t4 break open john green's stoic but were prevented by feirce dc r \\ has been malicioufiy reported and induftrioufly fprend about that felix kenan efq high sheiiffof duplin county receiver a bribe from me when 1 was taft in his cuftody tq favour ray efcjpe i now declare before god and the world as i hope for salvation that neither he tnc faid felix kenan nor any other perfon ever received an bribe or reward from me for that purpofe ; nor was tl'.e laid felix kenan privy to the means by which i made my efcape signed . his j . spencerxde w mark spencer dew was condemned laft june and executed . the iid or auguft following i "\ a k e n up by the fuhfcribeir in new-hanovee j county on the north eaft of c ape fear river in north carolina a new-negro man calls himfelt abraham he is about 5 feet 7 inches high between 25 and 30 years of age with his upptr teeth fii'd had on a negro-doth jacket an4 uouiers jpeaks buz very little englifli the owner is defired to come and prove his property with paying all charges to john bufoku september 1 1 77 nil ii mill !■ mil ilir-min«w»ttti^ii'in — imjjuiu just imported in the ship spencer captairi ivlleod from london j a large and compleat affortment of european and eaft india goods luitable for the leafon which will be iold on the molt reasonable terms by sutherland and cruden in wilmington and john crudcn and company at crols-creek september 21 tyy th e partnetfliip of cobham and tuck er will be difiblved the firft day cf odober next they requeft alj psrfoos who are indebted tu them to make payment ; and thofe to whom the company is indebted to lend in their accompts im mediately to either of the partners the preceeding requefts they hope will be complied v,ith their af fairs rendering a jeulement abfolutelyneceuary september 22 any perfon having a plantation to difpofl •"• from 500 to 1000 acres of land fi-t for rice ia cico or wheat may hear of a purchaser by fending a particular delcription and the price that will be afked therefor to adam boyd zbe c o n f e s s i o n of s p e n c*e r dew uteh executed at duptfn token by f : x . kenan elq sheriff of the faid county and jigned by the aid spencer osw at the gallows in pre fence cf a iarge concourfe of people it is pubiijhed at the requefl of mr kenan from tk original now in his hands tt \ vl about thirty-eight yeafs of age i was borp in north ern ton county in this province of honefl pa*cnts i s firfl induced to steal c title and horfes by george dukes and conftantine n-wton in which vs had great fuccefs i then joined in partnerflip with horn a:iu michael rogers and we stole fix horfcs and palled to the amount of one thoufand pounds counterfeit money but the greatefl part thereof was virginia currency which the f.tid horn and michael made themfelvcs in the year 1771 i joined in partnerfhip with ephraim and george lane and george lane and myfelf stole two horfes and a mare aid ephraim lane bore our expences v/hil'l vt were in fearch of rhe faid horfes and he drew one third of the money we got for them then ephraim lane an i myfelf stole eight head of fat hots and he faid he had ta-ken more before and that they were the property of john turner after this thomas hunter and mvfelf bioke open a houie of jofeph price on romook river and took a f.nall trunk with lo;ne money in it and a large fhot gun in the year 1772 i joined with william and pearfon line and we stole fix horfes and two mares weaho un latched the door of sirah hunter went into the houfe and ugh ted * candle took a key out of a boy's pocket unlocked the store door and went in and took about four pounds in pdclarmtisn money and about fifty pounds in good i was alfo'in partnehhip with thomis ormond and we stois three horfes and a mare an.l about feventeea or eighteen pounds virginia money from john hill in craven county in s ith carolina then with ludowick outlaw we paffed ah v.it four ilur^dred pounds counterfeit proclamaiicn money that one captain ohnfton made he lives on thomfons creek in so ith-carolina iiftciwards ormond jofeph clark william fohnfton and myfelf broke open the store cfthorr.a.s collins on rtroad river and stole about one hundred and fii'tvi pounds virginia money and twenty pair of blankets then with drury goodwin and samuel i^ine we palled about three hundred pounds counterfeit gold silver and vir ginia money john nicholas smith and myfelf stole from jekn m'intofh a horfe &. a mare and about forty shillings c aih ; and from william white in south carolina about thi leen pounds virginia money about the fird of march lad we w^re all apprehended in hilliborough and samuel lanr made liii efcape but having had notice given us v/e hid out counterfeit money under the head of a bed and wnen we v/ere fe^rched finding none about us ve were difcharged x was in combination with t s d--v s p — t~-r m n b---n and received from him three hundred pounds froc which i faw him make to pafs and 1 was to give h ; m one half of what i got for it : and in 1773 he a sjavc me eiffht ilandred pounds more of hisown make on the fvne terms which i left in the polfefilon of william marfault i hctve lecu la s c r receive from faid d v s i the full amount of two thoufand pounds counterfeit to fafs nd i verily do belirve that john & george kennedy are in con federacy with f.iid davis william marfault and myfelf stole from jofeph kolr nine barrels of pitch ; three barrels of tar from mr cornell and two barrels from mrs smith in january or february 1772 robert m'lean and myfelf stole from mr cornel two barrels of pork out of a boat that came down neufe river and attempted to steal another but weie clifcovered i k cocked down a man and we both made our efcape about a month ago william stringer got from j s i)--v s one hundred and fiftv pounds counterfeit to pafs on the fame terms that i had mine bince i broke cr'tody after my condemnation i broke epen smita's ksufe en neufs river io jdobbs coua mercury j^km/vep.um atque decevb euro cape-fear et rogo 9 e omnis in hoc sum t h £ ' t_k i h*t v f j #- -. j^^^jp^_r_9_*_pi________t _____