SC Ruanaway Advertisements - 1769

Apprehended in Mobile last Feb 1st, four runaway negro men, DICK, JANSEN, TOM, and JEMMY, all stout new negroes.  DICK speaks a little bad English and says they came from CHARLES-TOWN, but does not know their master's name.  TOM very much cut on the back and belly with flogging.
Negroes are in the custody of the Provost Marshal of Mobile to be claimed.  If not claimed by 1st February 1769, they will be sold to pay the charge of keeping and detaining them.  Claimants may apply in Charles Town to JOHN WARD, merchant.
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Runaway from my plantation in CHRIST CHURCH PARISH, 25 May last, 7 negro men.  DANIEL, MARK, PRIMUS, WINTER, JACOB, all country born, and QUAW and AMOS, bought new negroes.  Runaway last April a negro named NED, a boatman, artful and plausible, formerly the property of MR. HENRY GRAY.
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Runaway at the beginning of May from BENJAMIN HUGER'S plantation near GEORGE TOWN, negro man SANCHO, his teeth filed, bought a new negro. ISAAC HUGER.
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Source: Taken from original documents, newspapers of South Carolina, and the British Public Records Office in London, England.
Source: 'Citizens and Immigrants - S.C. 1768' published by Heritage Papers.
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Jeanette in Telfair Co.Ga

Contributed by: Jeanette Martin  martinj@mail.telfair.public.lib.ga.us