Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Kingston, April 29, 1801. WHEREAS a Creole Negro Man, with a wooden leg, named CHRISTMAS, alias JACK HATCHWAY, belonging to the subscriber, absconded some months ago from Westphalia Plantation, in Port-Royal-Mountains: And whereas he lately enticed away a Negro Woman, of the Chamba country, named RACHEL, a washerwoman, also the property of the subscriber. A Reward of Twenty Guineas will be paid to any person proving to conviction by whom either of them is harboured, and Half-a-Joe for securing and delivering one, or both of them, to Thomas Hynes, Esq.