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    Runaway Advertisements

     

    Edenton Gazette, Dec. 15, 1819

     

    Raleigh Register, Jan. 28, 1820

     

    Raleigh Register, May 19

     

    Edenton Gazette, Oct. 16

     

    Carolina Centinel, Mar. 17, 1821

     

    Raleigh Register, Mar. 23

     

    Western Carolinian, Jul. 16, 1822

     

    Raleigh Star, Mar. 26, 1824

     

    Raleigh Register, Nov. 19

     

    Free Press, Feb. 25, 1825

     

    Raleigh Star, Jan. 20, 1826

     

    Elizabeth City Star, Feb. 11

     

    Free Press, Feb. 3, 1827

     

    Raleigh Register, Jan. 16, 1829

     

    Halifax Minerva, Apr. 2

     

    Norfolk & Portsmouth Herald, Jan. 1, 1830

     

    Norfolk & Portsmouth Herald, Jan. 1

     

    Raleigh Star, Jan. 21, 1830

     

    Raleigh Register, Oct. 14

     

    Roanoke Advocate, Sept. 1, 1831

     

    SLAVE RESISTANCE

    Free Press (Halifax and Tarboro, N.C.),

    February 3, 1827

    Runaways,

    MOSES, NAT & HARRIS.

          FIFTY DOLLARS Reward for Moses, TWENTY-FIVE Dollars

    each for Nat and Harris. Said negroes ran away about the 15th instant, and are supposed to be lurking in Occoniechy Neck. Moses has a wife at Wm. Long’s plantation in Northampton county, four or five miles from Halifax town. I am somewhat of opinion that they have gone to Southampton county, Va. They have some near relations belonging to the Mr. Ricks’, in Southampton. I am confident that Moses enticed Nat and Harris off. Moses is about 27 years old, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high—Nat is 21 years old, and Harris 17 years old—all of them near one height and one weight, that is, about 140 or 150. They are brothers, and of a bright complexion for negroes—no mark that I can recollect.

    ISAAC RICKS.

    Halifax county, Jan. 27, 1827