New Castle county, ss., State of Delaware. — To Wm. R. Lynam, Sheriff of said county. — — Davis (Negro) is delivered to your custody for further examination and hearing for traveling without a pass, and supposed to be held a Slave to some person in the State of Georgia.
[Seal]. Witness the hand and seal of John Bradford, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Newcastle, the 17th day of March, 1854.
JOHN BRADFORD, J.P.