Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

BROUGHT TO COLLETON GAOL. On the 9th inst. a negro man, says his name is JAME, and that he belongs to Solomon Cotton, of Warren County, North Carolina; he is supposed to be thirty years old, and about five feet, four or five inches high, pitted with the small pox, a large mouth, has a notch on the edge of his left ear, which he says was done by his Master, a large scar on the inner part of his left wrist, and much bowlegged; he says he has been accustomed for eight years to the sea.