Early Governors' Papers

James H. Scott saith that on Saturday the 10^th day of March last Joseph Conway called at this deponents House in the County of Roccastle about five miles east of the Crab Orchard & requested this deponant [sic] to go with him about four miles below Harrods burg for the purpose of getting a negroe ^Boy by the home of Warner which boy this deponant [sic] Understood Robert Boyce had purchased of a certain W^m Stapp this deponant [sic] would not go with said Conway & on the Monday following about an Hour after sun rise in the morning the said boy came to this deponants [sic] House & Informed him Joseph Conway was behind, this deponant [sic] left Home Immediately after & did not see s^d Conway on that day morning, on the Saturday aforesaid the s^d Conway asked this deponant [sic] to direct him a near way so as to Intersect with the Pulaski road that would Cut off about five miles in the distance of ten miles

James H. Scott