Runaway Dave: "His father... is of Indian descent, and is a free man" (Raleigh, NC, 1825)

SUMMARYRunaway Dave: "His father... is of Indian descent, and is a free man" (Raleigh, NC, 1825) [Connections: Carolinas, Nov 5, 2026]

RECORDA Raleigh Register and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser ad of September 2, 1825 (dated August 23, signed John B. Vincent) seeking the enslaved man Dave says: "His father, I have been told, is of Indian descent, and is a free man," naming the father as Kinchen Tucker, living in Virginia. A North Carolina Standard ad of September 4, 1839 (Richard Short) describes the runaway Tom's complexion as "almost of the Indian order" (as transcribed by the NC Free Persons of Color project). Hostile witness: the enslavers

PATTERNThe ad names a free father of Indian descent and an enslaved son. The father's line was free, and the son was held as a slave anyway

LENS (WW9)Dad was a free Indian man and his son was listed as property: the same family split by paper

OPENFind Kinchen Tucker in Virginia free-colored registers and the census (1820/1830). Check the original newspaper image at DigitalNC

SOURCEFourth Generation Inclusive (ncfpc.net), runaways category. Primary: Raleigh Register, Sept. 2, 1825; North Carolina Standard, Sept. 4, 1839.