They first saw him in May, 1838.

Mrs.Path remembers this date because it was the month in which she removed from Broadway to Harrison street, and Bibb assisted her to remove.

Mrs.
Path's garden adjoined Dundy's back yard.

While engaged in digging up flowers, she was addressed by Bibb, who was staying with Dundy, and who offered to dig them up for her.
She hired him to do it.

Mrs.Dundy shortly after called over and told Mrs.Path that he was a slave.