Scipio, an African American man residing in Bertie County, North Carolina, was enslaved by Samuel Scollay. On October 1, 1741, Scipio ran away from Scollay's property, possibly with the assistance of nearby plantation owner Benjamin Hill. According to Scollay's petition, Scipio was still residing at Hill's plantation on October 1, 1742. Scollay appealed to the local court asking for Scipio's return, but it appears his petition was not successful. Scipio appears on Benjamin Hill's 1753 will where Hill bequeathed "my negro fellow named Scipio and his wife Dinah and her two children named Scipio and Nancy" to his daughter Elizabeth McCulloch. It's unclear whether Scipio went to Hill's plantation for Dinah, or if the two met once he arrived there. Either way, it appears Scipio and his family remained enslaved to the McCulloch family, as in 1795 Elizabeth's husband Alexander bequeathed Scipio's descendants to his granddaughter, also named Elizabeth McCulloch.