ARRIVAL FROM TAPPS’ NECK, MD., 1859.
LEWIS WILSON, JOHN WATERS, ALFRED EDWARDS AND WILLIAM QUINN.
LEWIS’ grey hairs signified that he had been for many years plodding
under the yoke. He was about fifty years of age, well set, not tall, but he had about him the marks of a substantial laborer. He had been brought up on a farm under H. Lynch, whom Lewis described as “a mean man when drunk, and very severe on his slaves,” The number that he ruled over as his property, was about twenty. Said Lewis, about two years ago, he shot a free man, and the man died about two hours afterwards; for this offence he was not even imprisoned. Lynch also tried to cut the throat of John Waters, and succeeded in making a frightful gush on his left shoulder (mark shown), which mark he will carry with him to the grave; for this he was ‘not even sued. Lewis left five children in bondage, Horace, John, Georgiana, Louisa and Louis, Jr., owned by Bazil and John Benson.