ESQ.
MY DEAR BROTHER:

Your kind communication of the 13th came to hand yesterday.
I have made inquiries respecting Henry Bibb which may be of
service to you. Mr. Wm. Harrison, to whom you alluded in
your letter, is here. He is a respectable and worthy man--a
man of piety. I have just had an interview with him this
evening. He testifies, that he was well acquainted with
Henry Bibb in Trimble County, Ky., and that he sent a letter
to him by Thomas Henson, and got one in return from him. He
says that Bibb came out to Canada some three years ago, and
went back to get his wife up, but was betrayed at Cincinnati
by a colored man--that he was taken to Louisville but got
away--was taken again and lodged in jail, and sold off to
New Orleans, or he, (Harrison,) understood that he was taken
to New Orleans. He testifies that Bibb is a Methodist man,
and says that two persons who came on with him last Summer,
knew Bibb. One of these, Simpson Young, is now at Malden.
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Very respectfully, thy friend,
HIRAM WILSON.

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[No. 2.] BEDFORD, TRIMBLE CO., KENTUCKY.
_March 4, 1845_.

SIR:--Your letter under date of the 13th ult., is now before
me, making some inquiry about a person supposed to be a
fugitive from the South, "who is lecturing to your religious
community on Slavery and the South."

I am pleased to inform you that I have it in my power to
give you the information you desire. The person spoken of by
you I have no doubt is Walton, a yellow man, who once
belonged to my father, William Gatewood. He was purchased by
him from John Sibly, and by John Sibly of his brother Albert
G. Sibly, and Albert G. Sibly became possessed of him by his
marriage with Judge David White's daughter, he being born
Judge White's slave.

The boy Walton at the time he belonged to John Sibly,
married a slave of my father's, a mulatto girl, and sometime
afterwards solicited him to buy him; the old man after much
importuning from Walton, consented to do so, and accordingly
paid Sibly eight hundred and fifty dollars. He did not buy
him because he needed him, but from the fact that he had a
wife there, and