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"Ranaway, Dick, 18 or 20 years of age, has one front tooth out." Mr. Philip A. Dew, in the "Virginia Herald," of May 24, 1837. "Ranaway, Washington, about 25 years of age, has an upper front tooth out." J.G. Dunlap, "Georgia Constitutionalist," April 24, 1838. "Ranaway, negro woman Abbe, upper front teeth out." John Thomas, "Southern Argus," August 7, 1838.
JACOB BESSON, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, advertises in the New Orleans Bee, August 7, 1838, "the negro woman Victorine she is advanced in pregnancy." Mr. J.H. LEVERICH & Co. No. 10, Old Levee, New Orleans, advertises in the 'Bulletin, January 22, 1839, as follows. "$50 REWARD. Ranaway a negro girl named Caroline about 18 years of age, is far advanced in child-bearing.
E. W. MORRIS, Sheriff. Vicksburg, July 2, 1836." "RANAWAY, from the subscriber a negro man known as Frank Pilot. He is five feet eight inches high, dark complexion, and about 50 years old, HAS BEEN FREE SINCE 1829 is now my property, as heir at law of his last owner, Samuel Ralston, dec. I will give the above reward if he is taken and confined in any jail so that I can get him.
"Ranaway, Dick, about 19, has lost the small toe of one foot." Mr. "Stolen a mulatto boy, ten years old, he has a scar over his eye which was made by an axe." Mr. Richard Overstreet, Brook Neal, Campbell Co. "Absconded my negro man Coleman, has a very large scar on one of his legs, also one on each arm, by a burn, and his heels have been frosted."
He is 26 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, has a scar on his forehead, caused by a blow, and one on his back, MADE BY A SHOT FROM A PISTOL." In the "New Orleans Bee," Dec. 21, 1838, Mrs. BURVANT, whose residence is at the corner of Chartres and Toulouse streets, advertises a woman as follows: "Ranaway, a negro woman named Rachel has lost all her toes except the large one."
"Ranaway, Henry, about 23 years old, has one of his upper front teeth out." D. Herring, Warden of Baltimore Jail, in "Baltimore Chronicle," Oct. 6, 1837. "Committed to jail Elizabeth Steward, 17 or 18 years old, has one of her front teeth out." Mr. "Ranaway Liley, 26 years of age, one fore tooth gone." Samuel Harman Jr. in the "New Orleans Bee," Oct. 12, 1838.
In the Mobile Mercantile Advertiser, of Feb. 13, 1838, is an advertisement Signed SARAH WALSH, of which the following is an extract: "Twenty-five dollars reward will be paid to any one who may apprehend and deliver to me, or confine in any jail, so that, I can get him, my man Isaac, who ranaway sometime in September last.
"The subscriber will give $20 for the apprehension of his negro woman, Maria, who ran away about twelve months since. She is known to be lurking in or about Chuckatuch, in the county of Nansemond, where she has a husband, and formerly belonged. "Ranaway from the subscriber, two negroes, Davis, a man about 45 years old; also Peggy, his wife, near the same age.
JOHN C. BEASLEY, near Huntsville, Alabama, thus advertises a young girl of eighteen, in the Huntsville Democrat, of August 1st, 1837. "Ranaway Maria, about 18 years old, very far advanced with child." He then offers a reward to any one who will commit this young girl, in this condition, to jail. Mr. JAMES T. DE JARNETT, Vernon, Autauga co.
Mr. "Ranaway, negro Phil, scar through the right eye brow part of the middle toe right foot cut off." Green B Jourdan, Baldwin County Ga. in the "Georgia Journal," April 18, 1837. "Ranaway, John, has a scar on one of his hands extending from the wrist joint to the little finger, also a scar on one of his legs." Messrs. Daniel and Goodman, New Orleans, in the "N.O. Bee," Feb. 2, 1838.
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