Headline	Runaway
Publishing newspaper	Raleigh, N.C. : Raleigh Register and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser
Date of advertisement	1806-06-02
Page	3
Time period (decade)	1800-1809
Person placing ad	James Byrd
Date of departure	1806-05-12
County of residence	Wake County (N.C.)
Presumed or intended destination	Warren County (N.C.)
Slave name(s)	Brunswick
Slaveholder	James Byrd
Transcript	RUNAWAY From the Subscriber, within 4 miles of Fish Dam Ford, in Wake County, on the 12th inst. A NEGRO FELLOW about 20 Years old, named Brunswick, 5 Feet 8 or 9 Inches high, stoutly made and active--very black : his Teeth wide apart. He went off thinly cloathed, having nothing on but a shirt, Waistcoat, and an old Pair of Woollen Breeches. He carried with him a Fiddle, and it is supposed he would aim for Shocco Creek in Warren County. Whoever shall lodge the said Negro in Gaol, or deliver him to the Subscriber, shall be handsomely rewarded. JAMES BYRD. May 23.
Subject headings	Fugitive slaves--North Carolina--History--Sources Slavery--North Carolina--History--Sources Plantation life--North Carolina--History--Sources North Carolina--History--1775-1865--Sources
Type	Text
Original format	clippings advertisements
Language	en
Source collection	North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Digital Collection
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determing actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Microfilm #	252
Microfilm Roll	3
Object ID	02520301-1806-06-02-03-01
Date digitized	2011
Digital master format	Image/tiff
Digital access format	Image/jp2
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Funding source	NC ECHO Digitization Grant administered using LSTA funds through the State Library of North Carolina.
OCLC number	908791255

Runaway

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