RUNAWAY from the subscriber on Saturday night, the 27th inst. his negro boy TOM, about fifteen years of age, he was clad in dark homespun clothes, has a scar over his right eye near the brow – he rode away a bay mare; she has a star in her forehead.
Said boy Tom runaway some weeks ago and passed in Orange county for a free boy by the name of Tom Pettiford, and will probably attempt to pass for a free boy again. Any person who will apprehend said boy, and confine him in jail so that I get him again, shall be generously rewarded. J.M. JELKS. Wake County, 9 miles west of Raleigh, February 23, 1820.
Star, Raleigh, 3 March 1820.
Filed under: Free Status, Runaways Tagged: Orange County, Pettiford, runaways, Wake County
