Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Westmorland, June 22, 1819 Runaway from the Subscriber a Negro Boy named BILLY, alias BILLY SIMPSON, about four feet four inches high, marked AW on left shoulder, and WT PK on right shoulder, and has a longitudinal scar above the left temple, by a fall from a horse; he is about 18 years of age, a little pitted with the small pox, and stout made. He was purchased at a Workhouse Sale in June, 1810, at Savanna-la-Mar; the account he then gave of himself was; that he came from Kingston as a Servant to some of the Officers of the 101st Regiment, who turned him out of the Barracks, which caused him to be committed to the Workhouse. He said his mother lived in Kingston, and goes occasionally to England, as a servant to Families.