Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Ranaway RANAWAY from the Subscriber, his two Negro Boys, WILL and JIM ; They are both well known in Charleston Neck and in the city, from their driving the cart with fodder and marketing to town — Will is about 22 years of age, (…) very short, and has all the appearance of a boy of 15 or 16 ; he is very bushy headed, and had on when he went away, a homespun shirt and checked homespun trowsers. — Jim is about 18, taller, but not so strong made as Will ; has a mark on the upper part of his nose adjoining his forehead, remarkably black, and about the size of a fourpence ; had on when he went away, a blue cloth coatee and blue homespun trowsers. Ten Dollars reward will be given for the apprehending and delivering said two Negroes to the subscriber, or Five Dollars for each.