His father was emancipated in Virginia.
Committed to the Jail of Rockingham county, (N.C.) on the 25th ult. A Negro Fellow, who says his name is JOHN ARMSTRONG, and that he is a free Man – says his father was emancipated by a family of the...
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NOTICE. Ran away from the Subscriber on the 13th of September last, a bound boy of color, by the name of WILLIAM HAITHCOCK, eighteen years of age, weighing about one hundred and fifty pounds. I hereby...
View ArticleOn the 5th came a traveling black man.
Notice. On the night of the 5th inst. came a travelling Black man, and took up for the night in one of my Negro houses; after my having notice of it, I took him under examination, and he called himself...
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YANKEE RAIDS IN NORTH CAROLINA – ARREST OF CITIZENS – STAMPEDE OF NEGROES During the past three or four weeks, those counties in North Carolina bordering upon the Virginia lines of the Federal army,...
View ArticleA reward for apprehending a slave.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA. We take Monday’s proceedings from the Standard. Our Reporters’ letters annexed furnish those of Tuesday and Wednesday. … Wednesday, Jan’y 30th. Mr Peebles, a bill to...
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One Hundred Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 6th day of March last, a mulatto man by the name of JACK, well built, about five feet five or six inches high, 28 years of age, a...
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RUNAWAY from the subscriber on Saturday night, the 27th inst. his negro boy TOM, about fifteen years of age, he was clad in dark homespun clothes, has a scar over his right eye near the brow – he rode...
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FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. RANAWAY from the subscriber, about the first of January last, a negro boy, (an indented Apprentice,) named WASHINGTON. Said boy is between 19 and 20 years of age, and rather under...
View ArticleHe answers very quick; she has a brazen look.
One hundred dollars reward. RUNAWAY from the subscriber, on the 3rd July 1819, two negroes, one man named Jacob, about thirty five years old, of yellow complexion, about five feet ten inches high, when...
View ArticleHe has probably gone to his parents; his father is a free man.
$50 Reward. RAN AWAY from my residence about 14 miles from Newbern on the 1st of July last, a negro boy named POLLOCK. His complexion is jet black – about 19 years old, and 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high....
View ArticleRunaway bound girl may try to pass.
NOTICE. ALL persons are forbid harboring my bound girl SUSAN, as the law will be enforced against all such. Susan ran away on Saturday evening last, the 10th inst; she is a bright mulatto, about 13...
View ArticleHe has fine white teeth; I have his indentures.
$25 Reward. WILL be given for the delivery to me, or for the confinement in the Jail of Cumberland county, of DAVID BOOKER, who ranaway from me about the middle of last June. DESCRIPTION. – Booker is...
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Ten Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from Nixenton, Pasquotank County, some time in January last, a negro woman by the name of BECK, formerly the property of Mr. Morris of said county, who emancipated her and...
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See Gatsey Pittman here. Wilmington Advertiser, 22 December 1837. Filed under: Apprentices, Free Women of Color, Newspapers, Runaways Tagged: apprentice, Onslow County, Pittman, runaway
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Carolina Watchman (Salisbury), 27 February 1851.Filed under: Apprentices, Newspapers, Runaways Tagged: apprentice, Davie County, runaway, Russel
View ArticleRunaway bound boy, no. 11.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD. Run away last night, from the subscriber, an apprenticed negro boy, named Bill, known generally as Bill Copper, a light mulatto about 14 years of age. Any person taking up said...
View ArticleRunaway bound boy, no. 12.
RANAWAY FROM me, in October last, HENRY MARTIN, a free boy of color, about 18 years of age. The said Martin is a bound apprentice to me. All persons are hereby forbid harboring or trusting him on my...
View ArticleRunaway bound boy, no. 13.
RUNAWAY From the Subscriber on the 5th inst., an indentured colored boy named JIM WESLEY, about 15 years old. He is a bright mulatto, and has a downcast look when spoken to. Persons are cautioned...
View ArticleRunaway bound boy, no. 14.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. RANAWAY from the Subscriber on the 17th of October last, a colored Boy named THOMAS WALDEN, about eight years old. I understand said boy is about Donald Street’s, in Moore county....
View ArticleRunaway bound boy, no. 15.
Five Cents Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber, a few weeks since, an indented Apprentice by the name of EPHRAIM BURNETT; he is a dark complected colored boy, 15 to 16 years of age. Whoever will...
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