Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Kingston, Nov 5, 1813. Absconded on the 22nd ult. A yellow complexioned N, named BILLY, a blacksmith by trade about five feet three or four inches high, and nineteen years of age, marked ARN on the right shoulder, has a sore on the right leg, and a scar on his head, had on when he went away a pair of blue Pantaloons, and a sailor’s blue jacket; he was seen on the Spanish-Town road about a week since, with a basket of greens, in company with a black woman supposed to be a higgler, going to Spanish- Town.