African Americans History

Fifty Dollars Reward.

Ran AWAY from the subscriber living near Frost Town, Allegany county, Md. on Saturday the 4th inst. a dark Mulatto Negro man named
SAM,

$100 Reward.

James Pembroke was born a slave on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and sent by his owner, Frisby Tilghman, to Rockland, south of Hagerstown in Washington County. There Jim learned the skills of a blacksmith.

He escaped from slavery on October 28, 1827, going first to Pennsylvania, and later moving to New York and Connecticut. He became a minister and changed his name to James W. C. Pennington.

$ 25 REWARD.
Ran away from the subscriber living in Cumberland, on Thursday morning, the 31st of
January last, a black man
named
JERRY
about 25 years old, of a dark complexion, about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, and tolerably well built. He is a tolerable good rough Carpenter —a good cook, and can do almost any kind of farming work. No particular body marks or scars recollected. He took with him a fur Hat, a drab cloth Roundabout, one pair of brown and one of blue cloth Pantaloons. No other clothing particularlary recollected.

Jerome: The Runaway Slave Who Returned - 50 Years Later

Note: Jacob Brown, author of Brown's Miscellaneous Writings, tells the following story about a runaway slave from the Grantsville area named Jerome. Brown recorded the story in 1889:

Jerome, as a youth, was brought to the Grantsville area from Georgetown, Md., by a man who had a number of slaves. Brown described him as "... an exceedingly bright, likely, and intelligent boy. Jerome was then about 17 years of age, fair skinned, and as intelligent as any white man in the neighborhood.

$50 REWARD RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Petersburg, Hardy county, Va. On Saturday the 3d inst. a bright mulatto man called
Jess

A Runaway.
Was committed to the jail of Allegany county, Maryland, on the 21st day of August last, a negro man named CHRISTOPHER ATERS, who says he was commonly called, when at home, by the name of KIT, aged about twenty-five or thirty years. Had on when committed, a blue Cassinett short coat, brown Cassinett pantaloons, homemade waistcoat and also a hair cap. He says he belongs to a Mr. Balwin Luvee, of Faquier County, Va.
The owner is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges, and take him away, otherwise he will be discharged according to law.

"Nelly and Ben"

From the Cumberland, Maryland Advocate, run-away slave notice, January 11, 1832

$100 REWARD.
Ran away from the subscriber near Frankfort, Va. on Sunday night the 11th of December, inst. two coloured people :—One a black man named
BEN,

"Aunt Judy", 1805-1866

Her tombstone reads
"A Faithful Friend and Helper
There is neither bond nor free for all are one in Christ Jesus."

Aunt Judy was a one-time local slave and later servant in the Robert Hall McCleave (1808-1886) household, in whose family plot she is buried. In 1860, Allegany County was identified as having 666 slaves, 467 free "colored", and 27,215 whites.

This runaway slave notice for Aaron and Henry Adams appeared in The Advocate, Cumberland, Maryland, Wednesday, January 11, 1832. The slave notices appeared in the back of The Advocate in a section called "The Allegany Advertiser" which featured all types of ads for things to buy and sell.