Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

Ran-Away, From the subscriber, about six weeks ago, a bright MULATTO FELLOW, by the name of GEORGE, about 22 or 23 years of age, and expects to pass as a free man, he is about 5 feet 8 inches high, well made, a tolerable good shoemaker, and can work well with the broad axe. Any person who will deliver him to Baldam Berryman, in Pendleton district, shall receive Fifty Dollars for lodging him in any gaol and giving information ; he had on a long blue coat, and a number of other cloaths, and had a set of shoemaker’s tools. I forewarn all persons from harboring him, and captains of vessels from taking him off the state.