Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

200 Dollars Reward. RUN-away, in the spring of the last year, from this place, a Young Fellow belonging to me, named JOHN, sometimes called JOHNSON, at times calling himself JOHN HILL, at other times JOHN HOWE. This fellow is about 5 feet 5 inches high, 23 years old, and is of a dull copper-colour, being the son of a mulatto man and negro woman; his features are generally ugly, his eyes remarkably large and prominent; he is sensible and shrewd, civil in his manners and plausible in conversation; he served his time with a cabinet maker, and has worked as a journeyman with a Windsor chair maker; he is very ingenious, and well acquainted with the use of the joiner tools.