Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Forty Dollars Reward, Will be paid for apprehending PRINCE and JUNE – Prince is about thirty-four years of age, a black man of slender form, five feet nine inches high, round visage, has several marks on his face peculiar to his country and his teeth filed ; he generally wears an ear-bob [inc], but it is not recollected in which ear, speaks French and broken English, though not in the French dialect. June or Joe is about the same age of Prince, five feet seven or eight inches high, stout made, knock kneed, a pleasant countenance and his teeth are also filed ; he speaks very bad English and French. They were purchased about two years ago from captain William Norment, or Lumberton, North-Carolina, who brought them from the state of Georgia, where it is supposed they will endeavor to return.