Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Forty Dollars Reward RANAWAY from the Sugar plantation of Richard Butler and Samuel McCutcheon, on the night of the 17th March two negro men of the following description, viz. JAMES, (black) 5 feet 5 ½ inches high, thick set, about 35 years of age, full faced, rather a down look, has a small piece cut out of one side of his nose, had on when he went away a blue round-about jacket, and coarse cotton trowsers, and sundry other apparel not recollected. PHILL, (jet black) five feet five and a half inches high, about 28 years of age, has a scar on the back part of his right hand near his little finger, about the size of a quarter of a dollar, small made, had on a blue round about and black cloth vest and country cotton trowsers, and sundry other apparel not recollected.