Friday, January 3, 2020

Ran Away: Alfred and Ariadne/Ann Taylor (enslaved persons)

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC)
26 December 1836

FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. -- Ran off on the 26th of November last, negroes ALFRED, belonging to Mr. Henry Heslip, of Prince William county, and his wife ARIADNE, who calls herself ANN TAYLOR, belonging to Mrs. Georgana L. Bailor, of Prince William county, and hired to Mrs. Maxwell, near Haymarket, in the same county.

Alfred is a blacksmith, a dark mulatto, between 30 and 36 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, spare, with a long thin face, high cheek bones, wide mouth, and pale and sickly complexion.  Ariadne, or Ann Taylor, who lived for several years in Washington city, where she has a general acquaintance, and was employed by Mrs. Maxwell as a cook, is a dark mulatto, about 33 years of age, about 5 feet high, very fleshy and thick, with a large and long face, gray eyes, and thick lips, and is very sprightly.

If taken either in Prince William or Fauquier county, a reward of ten dollars; if taken elsewhere in Virginia, a reward of twenty dollars; or if taken out of Virginia, the above reward of fifty dollars will be given for apprehending and securing eithe rof the above mentioned negroes, so that he or she be recovered by the owner.

LUCIAN DADE

Near Brentsville, Prince William county, Virginia
dec 13 -- law2wep




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