Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

10 Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY, on the 21st instant, a NEGRO FELLOW, named THOMAS, of a yellowish complexion, formerly the property of Mr. GEORGE CHISOLM, and now of General VANDERHORST, on whose wharf he has worked as a labourer for these three or four years past—Had on a large fearnought jacket, or great coat, lined with red flannel, and blue negro cloth trowsers—His face appears generally swelled, and when speaking, has a kind of a wheese, as if he had lately caught cold, supposed to be the effect of liquor.