COPY OF FIRST ORDER OF COMMITMENT.

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.

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