[2] According to a news report from 1904, in the 1830s Pullum bought a house in Lexington that had been designed by architect Mathias Shryock as his personal residence in 1809.

[5] It is unknown when Pullum entered the slave trade in the United States but he had letters waiting for him at the Natchez, Mississippi post office in 1833[6] and 1837.

[7] Pullum added on to the former Shryock property, building "in the rear of this residence and fronting on Sycamore street...a large and substantial brick house which he used as a slave prison.

"[8] In May 1902, historian Frederic Bancroft interviewed a man named Alfred Wornell, who had been trafficked to Natchez from Lexington by Pullum, likely in the late 1840s.

"[9]Sometimes enslaved people trafficked by Pullum were shipped south by steamboat, rather than being driven in coffles, in which case, per court testimony of an agent for Pullum, they were kept chained until the Ohio River became the Mississippi, in order to prevent the prisoners from jumping overboard and attempting to swim to safety in a free state.

[11] According to J. Winston Coleman in Slavery Times in Kentucky (1940), Pullum "gave notice that, on account of ill health, he had leased out his 'old stand' near the Bruen House, which faced Broadway with the slave 'coops' fronting on Mechanics Alley.

"[5] In the 1850s, a kidnapped free woman of color Henrietta Woods was held in a slave jail on Broadway in Lexington that was said to be owned by Pullum.

Having established ourselves at the Forks of the Road, near Natchez, for a term of years, we have now on hand and intend to keep throughout the entire year, a large and well-selected stock of Negroes, consisting of field-hands, house servants, mechanics, cooks, seamstresses, washers, ironers, which we can and sell as low or lower than any other house here or in New Orleans.

"[13] In October 1853, 41-year-old Pullum remarried in Fayette County, following the death of his first wife, Emma Shrewsbury, age 21.

"[20] Pullum appears as a character in Milton Meltzer's Underground Man, a juvenile historical fiction book set in the border states before the American Civil War.