Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

ENTICED AWAY, From the subscriber, on Sunday the 30th May last, a Negro Boy named ARCHEY, an African by birth, who was seized on by me on the 29th June, 1812, on John’s Island, he having been imported into this state contrary to law. Said boy is about 9 years of age, has a scar on his head, occasioned by a burn, speaks English, and had on a light colored homespun clothes. Five Dollars will be paid for the delivery of him to the subscriber, and Fifty Dollars on proof of his being harbored or in the possession of a white person after this notice.