15 DECEMBER 1859: Memphis Daily Appeal

Ranaway.

FROM the subscriber, on Sunday night, the 10th of July, near Oakland, Miss., my negro boy ARCHER, about twenty-six years of age, copper colored, and will weigh some one hundred and fifty or one hundred and sixty pounds. He will probably endeavor to make his way to a free State.

Also, from near the same place about the 15th of August, my boy GREEN, a light copper colored young negro fellow; will weigh some one hundred and sixty-five or one hundred and seventy pounds, and is five feet ten or eleven inches high; twenty-one years old. He was raised in the neighborhood of Paducah, Ky., and has probably succeeded in getting back there.

I will give twenty-five dollars reward for each of them, if confined in a jail in some slave State, so that I can get them.

Mr. Strong, my partner, on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, has also a boy runaway, who is probably in company with the first named of the above. His name is JOHN, and is a low, black chunky fellow, purchased from Mordecai, of Charlestown, S.C., last spring.

If taken in a free State, we will give fifty dollars each for them, confined in a jail in some slave State.

Mr. Strong thinks the States of Kentucky and Tennessee give reward enough, consequently he can offer no reward for his boy other than the above.

B.H. POPE.
C. STRONG.
Oakland, Mississippi

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