Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Committed to the Work-House, AS RUNAWAYS, TWO Negro Men, viz. Jacob Stewart, says he belongs to James Brown, high sheriff of Portsmouth, Norfolk county, in Virginia ; he came to Charleston in a Bermudian built sloop called the Albion, capt. Mansfield, last from Cape-Francois ; he is 5 feet 4 ½ inchees high, about 27 years of age, has a scar on his right arm above the wrist, a scar also over his left eye ; clothed in an old blue jacket, chequered shirt and striped trowsers.—Bob, says he belongs to Mr.