thought it right to return the forty-five dollars to David Lea; but he declined receiving it.  He would take only three dollars, to defray his expenses home; and gave the following written document concerning the remainder:  “I request Isaac T. Hopper to pay the money received from the order, which I gave him upon Nathan Peacock, to the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, or to any other charitable institution he may judge proper.”

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  DAVID x LEA. 
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He was discharged from prison, and the money paid to the Pennsylvania Hospital.  Next year, the following item was published in their accounts:  “Received of David Lea, a noted negro-catcher, by the hands of Isaac T. Hopper, forty-two dollars; he having received forty-five dollars for taking up a runaway slave, of which he afterward repented, and directed the sum to be paid to the Pennsylvania Hospital, after deducting three dollars to pay his expenses home.”

The slave was carried back to the South, but escaped again.  After encountering many difficulties, he was at last bought for a sum so small, that it was merely nominal; and he afterward lived in Philadelphia unmolested.

WILLIAM BACHELOR.

It was a common thing for speculators in slaves to purchase runaways for much less than their original value, and take the risk of not being able to catch them.  In the language of the trade, this was called buying them running.  In April, 1802, Joseph Ennells and Captain Frazer, of Maryland, dealers in slaves, purchased a number in this way, and came to Philadelphia in search of them.  There they arrested, and claimed as their property, William Bachelor, a free colored man, about sixty years old.  A colored man, whom the slave-dealers brought with them, swore before a magistrate that William Bachelor once belonged to a gang of slaves, of which he was overseer; that he had changed his name, but he knew him perfectly well.  William affirmed in the most earnest manner, that he was a free man; but Mr. Ennells and Captain Frazer appeared to be such respectable men, and the colored witness swore so positively, that the magistrate granted a certificate authorizing them to take him to Maryland.

As they left the office, they were met by Dr. Kinley, who knew William Bachelor well, and had a great regard for him.  Finding that his protestations had no effect with the Marylanders, he ran with all speed to Isaac T. Hopper, and entering his door almost out of breath, exclaimed, “They’ve got old William Bachelor, and are taking him to the South, as a slave.  I know him to be a free man.  Many years ago, he was a slave to my father, and he manumitted him.  He used to carry me in his arms when I was an infant.  He was a most faithful servant.”