Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Twenty Dollars Reward. Run away from the subscriber, a NEGRO FELLOW, named JACOB, about 27 years old, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high: had on when he went away, a new cloth jacket and trowsers , speaks good English. Any person or persons apprehending the said Negro, and lodging him in the Work-House or delivering him at Dorchester, shall be entitled to a reward of Five Dollars; and the above reward will be paid on conviction of his being harbored by a white person; and Ten Dollars if by a person of colour.