Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Twenty Dollars Reward. Absented himself in March last, from the subscriber, a MULATTO MAN, named JOE, well known by the name of JOE SEVERANCE, about five feet six or seven inches high, very straight, has a scar under his chin occasioned by a cut, speaks good English, and can tell a plausible tale; belonging to the estate of the late John Severance, of Christ Church parish, and lately employed by Charles Snowden, merchant. He has a free pass, signed by the late John E.