Jones-AL-Run Aways-1843

The Alabama Beacon Newspaper
Greensboro, Al
May 6, 1843


				 "RUNAWAY SLAVES"

ISSAC a young man about 21 years old, well made, and stout, and inclined to be yellow, with broad features, and rather likely--about 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 10 inches high. He was a few days ago brought from North Carolina, and was bought for me in Gates county, of J. R. Reddick and Lassiter Reddick.
	He left my residence on the 4th inst. for violence offered the overseer. He will probably endeavor to get back to North Carolina. At the same time, for no cause known, went away, boy BILL; about 18 years old, very black and stutters a little, remarkably shrewd, and has unusual powers of calculating numbers. Boy GLASCO, about 21 years old, stout, healthy and black. He is rather more sullen than Bill. These last two have been on my farm for several years.

The boy Issac was brought out to Alabama by Henry L. Thompson and was bought North Carolina by Abner Howell, of Hertford county. Any person who will apprehend any one or all the above named negroes, and deliver them to me six miles South-east of Greensboro or lodge them in any Jail so that I get them, will be sactifactorily (actual spelling) rewarded.

		 JAMES S. JONES

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