Raleigh, NC - July 21 The notorious Anthony Metcalf is now confined in Person county jail. It is hoped some of the friends of the numerous women he had married, (to say nothing of his other offences,) will come forward and prosecute him with effect. As far as the history of his life is known, he was raised in Portsmouth, Va. When quite young he was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in the penitentary for stealing a pocket book; married a woman in Hertford, one in Wilmington, one in Lincoln, another in Pitt, all in this state, and how many others are not known but if his own confession (made when confined in our jail) is to be believed, he had married 14 wives in 1818, and we have heard of one since. His age does not exceed 30 or 35. Source: The Star - July 31, 1820
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