FOR SALE,
A LIKELY, healthy Negro Woman, who can work in or out of doors, but has been mostly accustomed to house work and is an excellent cook, washer and ironer For further particulars, enquire of the printer hereof.
April 18, 1804.
To be disposed of
For Cash or Land in the Western Country. - —
A LIKELY NEGRO WENCH, twenty- six years old with three Children viz. A GIRL & TWO BOYS, the Girl is about five, the eldest boy three and the other two years old, all born and raised in the State of Maryland For terms end further particulars, apply to the subscriber, living on Potomack, seven miles above Hancock-Town, Washington County, Maryland.
DAVID MESKIMEN.
February 19, 1799.
FOR SALE,
A LIKELY, young, healthy Negro Wench, with a male child, ten years old. She has been brought up in the house, is a good plain cook and washes and irons well. For terms apply at the
Antietam Forge to
Robert Hughes,
Nov 22, 1798
Sheriff’s Sale,
A NEGRO Man who calls himself Jack, about 25 years of age, handsome, healthy and strong ; he was committed to my care on the 20th of October last as a runaway, and acknowledge himself to be a slave. He will be sold at public Vendue at two o'clock, on Saturday the instant, at the Sheriff’s office for his fees.
Rezin Davis, Sheriff,
Hagerstown, February 18, 1796.
Public sale of real estate
By virtue of an order and decree of the Orphans Court of Washington Count, the undersigned as Administrator of William Brown (colored) Deceased, will send as Public Sale in front of Taylor’s Hotel in Williamsport
On Saturday, the 14th day of October 1865 the following described Real Estate, whereof the said William Brown, died seized and possessed to wit:
TWO LOTS OF GROUND
ONE STORY DWELLING HOUSE
And other improvements. Possession given 1st of April next
Seven Negros Burned to Death.—
On Sunday morning at about two o’clock, our citizens were aroused from their beds by the ringing of the fire bell. The stable upon the premises occupied by Joseph Sprigg, Esq., had been fired by an incendiary. Mr. Sprigg not having room in his dwelling house for his servants had prepared the loft of the brick stable for their temporary accommodation. There were seven in number—one man, one woman, and five children—all of whom perished in the flames; also, a mule and buggy.—
Application has been made to the Governor for the pardon of JAMES HARRIS, a colored man, convicted in the Alleghany County Circuit Court for assisting his children to escape from Bondage and sentenced to the Penitentiary for six and a half years. It will hardly fail of success as the peculiar institution is looked upon in a different light from the time when the sentence was passed.
Tom, the Negro Pianist,
This musical prodigy had appeared and played in public at only five places before he visited Hagerstown. These were Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, Baltimore and Frederick. He gave exhibitions at Cumberland and Martinsburg last week.
A House Partially Burnt.
The Supposed Murder.
The last Chambersburg Repository and Whig contains the following particulars in regard to the death of Mr. Joseph Brumbaugh’s colored boy, a notice of which appeared in the last number of our paper—