Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Ranaway, ON Monday the 10th inst. from JOHN WHITING, turner, to whom he was bound apprentice, the subscriber’s Mulatto Slave PETER, known by the names of Sy or Syrus ; about 15 years old, 4 feet 10 or 11 inches high ; he is a very fair Mulatto, and may possibly pass himself for a white boy ; he has strait brown hair, and a very large scar on his head ; he speaks French and English ; he has been trying to enlist himself on board the gun boats, and has offered himself on board a vessel bound to Philadelphia as cabin boy ; his mother is a native of St. Domingo.