fifty dollars of the money already paid;
and her I determined to take with me to the North. The costs of court
which I had to meet, amounted to between thirty and forty dollars, besides
the fee of my lawyer.

On the 18th of May, 1841, three days after the court commenced its
session, I bid adieu to my friends in Raleigh, and set out for the city of
New York. I took with me a letter of introduction and recommendation from
Mr. John Primrose, a very estimable man, a recommendatory certificate from
Mr. Battle, and a letter from the church of which I was a member,
together with such papers relating to the affair as I had in my
possession. Also I received the following:

RALEIGH, N.C. May, 1841.

The bearer, Lunsford Lane, a free man of color, for some time a resident
in this place, being about to leave North Carolina in search of a more
favorable location to pursue his trade, has desired us to give him a
certificate of his good conduct heretofore.

We take pleasure in saying that his habits are temperate and
industrious, that his conduct has been orderly and proper, and that he
has for these qualities been distinguished among his caste.

Wm. Hill, R. Smith,
Weston R. Gales, C. Dewey.
C.L. Hinton,

The above was certified to officially in the usual form by the clerk of
the court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions.

My success in New York was at first small; but at length I fell in with
two friends who engaged to raise for me three hundred dollars, provided I
should first obtain from other sources the balance of the sum required,
which balance would be one thousand and eighty dollars. Thus encouraged, I
proceeded to Boston; and in the city and vicinity the needful sum was
contributed by about the 1st of April, 1842. My thanks I have endeavored
to express in my poor way to the many friends who so kindly and liberally
assisted me. I cannot reward them; I hope they will receive their reward
in another world. If the limits of this publication would permit, I
should like to record the names of many to whom I am very especially
indebted for their kindness and aid, not only in contributing, but by
introducing me and opening various ways of access to others.

On the 5th of February, 1842, finding that I should soon have in my
possession the sum necessary to procure my family, and fearing that there
might be danger in visiting Raleigh for that purpose, in consequence of
the stron