Slaves and Free Blacks, Western Maryland

PROPERTY FOR SALE.

BEING impowered by Mr. JOHN SALMON for the purpose, I offer the following property, in this County, for Sale---to wit,
That convenient and well situated House, Lot , Stables and improvements in the town of Sharpsburgh, now in the possession of Mr. Conrad Shitz – The situation of this Lot, and the convenience of the buildings thereon, for Tavern and Store are so well known that no further description is necessary.

Apprehended. Two of the seven Slaves, who recently ran away from this vicinity, have been arrested and returned to Messrs. JOHN BOOTH and JOSEPH RENCH, their masters. The others escaped on the “Underground Rail Road.”

A Slave Stampede.
Two female slaves belonging to Mr. Wm. HEYSER, one to Mr. JOSEPH RENCH, one to Mr. HENRY K. TICE, and one male slave to Mr. JOHN BOOTH, citizens of this town and vicinity, absconded to Pennsylvania on Sunday night last They took with them a horse of Dr. E. WEIS, a horse of Mr. HENRY K. TICE, a carriage of Mr. F. J. POSEY, and a buggy of Mr. JOSEPH P. MONG. On Monday the horses and vehicles were recovered at Chambersburg, the slaves having taken the cars for Harrisburg.

A Desperate Act.
The Boonsboro’ Odd Fellow of last week gives the following account of a most shocking occurrence:

ARRESTED. – A negro man belonging to Dr. Wilson was arrested on Thursday last and brought before Squire Harding charged with an attempt to perpetrate a shocking outrage upon a Miss Hafer, a respectable white girl of some fifteen years of age. He denied the charge, but the girl testified positively to his identity, and he was held to answer at court in the sum of $500. - Frederick (Md.) Citizen.
 

A likely Negro lad, about nineteen or twenty years of age, to be sold: for further particulars apply to

JOHN CLAGETT.
Hagerstown, January 14, 1796
 

On the evening of the 9th inst. a negro named Jim Baker was decoyed from his house, in the neighborhood of the jail, and shot by two men whose names are unknown. Dr. Dorsey was summoned to dress the negro’s wounds, and finding him in a dying condition he enjoined upon him to make known the facts pertaining to his injuries. He stated that he had retired to bed and was aroused by some man who in a familiar manner told him that he had something to tell him.

A Serious Charge.

“To all whom it may Concern.”

SLAVES LIBERATED. –

Col. THOMAS HITE, aided by other philanthropic disposed citizens of Jefferson county, Va., set free eighty of their slaves on Thursday last. The Col., as the agent of the owners, accompanied the negroes to Middleburg, Pa., when handing each individual $40 in money and equipping them all with sufficient clothing, they were set at liberty, and allowed to go wherever they please. – Mail