Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Mount-Recovery, St. Thomas in the Vale, Aug 2, 1814 THREE DOUBLOONS Reward is offered by the Subscriber to any person who will take up and lodge in any Gaol or Workhouse in the island, a M Man Slave named SAMUEL BENNETT, who passes as free, about 5 feet 7 inches high, well known in Kingston and Above-Rocks, having a Wife for some years past belonging to Salisbury Plain, named Molly Fisher; he is frequently seen skulking there, and with his Sister, who is said to be free, formerly called Grace, but now is known by the name of Ann Priscilla Sentt, a Sambo Woman, who is often at Magotty-Hall Negro Houses, with her Mother, who frequently absents herself from the Subscriber, and is in the habit of staying with the above Molly Fisher. He has several times offered violence to the Subscriber, his Master, who is desirous to bring him to justice.