Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Five Dollars Reward. Ranaway, on or about the 25th of May last, from the Plantation of THOMAS COCHRAN, esq. deceased, at Wiltown, a Negro FELLOW, named WILLIAM, about 18 years of age, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, very black complexion; and had on when he left the place, a pair of blue trowsers, and a check shirt; he has been brought in the city; is very artful in his stories – He has a mother living in Union-street, where he is probably lurking about.