Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Bumper-Hall Pen, Sept 6, 1811 RANAWAY from the Subscriber, on the 18th ult. a Negro Woman named FLORA, about 16 years of age; it is supposed she will endeavour to pass as free, having lived a considerable time in the neighbourhood of Liele’s Chapel before her present owner purchased her; she is well known among the Anabaptists; also JOHN, her son, a creole about 16 years old, and marked on the left shoulder TARDIF; at the time he absconded he had on a white shirt and Russia trowsers, with a blue waistcoat; he was taken up on Wed at the Camp, but escaped from the person who had him in custody: They both speak English and French. And on the 7th April 1810, a Congo Negro Man named GEORGE, a gardener, marked on his left breast TRICHER, and has a defect in his left hand from a scald.