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Title
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Ben- MD-VIOL4
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Identifier
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MD-VIOL4
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Source
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Baltimore Maryland Jounal and Baltimore Advertiser
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Date
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July 23, 1784
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Joseph White
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from Joseph White
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Notes
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Compiled from Lathan Windley
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Transcription
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SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY, last evening, from ELK-RIDGE, ANN-ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND, the following NEGROES, viz. HARRY, this Country-born, about 35 years of age, near 6 feet high, is very black, and has large feet with knots on his great toes, his eyes are reddish, his dress unknown.
TOBY, an AFRICAN, about 50 years of age, near 6 feet high, pitted with the small-pox, bow-legged, his teeth resemble squirrels teeth, speaks bad English, had on a felt hat, mixed-coloured coarse coat, osnaburg shirt, crocus trousers, and country-made shoes.
BEN, a Country-born NEGRO MAN, about 25 years of age, 6 feet high, has a long face and very sharp nose, and plays on the violin; as he took with him different sorts of clothes, his dress is unknown. Whoever secures the said fellows, so that their masters get them again, shall receive, if taken twenty miles from home, EIGHT DOLLARS, if out of the State, TWENTY DOLLARS for each, and reasonable charges if brought home. They went off in company with another NEGRO FELLOW, from Elk-Ridge.
NICHOLAS DORSEY,
WILLIAM HAMMOND,
JOSEPH WHITE, Sen.
Ann-Arundel County (Maryland) July 19, 1784.
