Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Kingston, September 24, 1802. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, a Mungola Negro Woman, short and stout, of a yellow complection [sic], her country marks on her belly, advertised some time since by the name of NANCY, since which she was taken up at Salt-River, when she produced a false paper, describing her a Creole of the Maroon- Town, under the name of ELEANOR NOBLE, by which means she was liberated; and was informed she is kept by a negro man, named HECTOR, a Carpenter working at Salt-River, belonging to Coltice Estate, who has conveyed on that property; she was marked on her shoulder MM, but since defaced. A Doubloon rweard is hereby offered to any person that will deliver her to the subscriber, or lodge her in Spanish-Town workhouse; and a further reward of Twenty Pounds to any that will prove to conviction by whom she is harboured.