Friend of Friends Friday: Ran Away: Mason and Spencer (1835)

Daily Globe (Washington, DC)
16 January 1835

$200 REWARD

RAN AWAY from the farm of the subscriber in Prince William county, Va. near Buckland, on the night of the 24th ultimo, two negro men, named MASON and SPENCER. Mason is a stout well set fellow, about five feet two or four inches high, quite black, and very likely; Spencer is a stout well formed fellow, near six feet high, of a light complexion, and has a heavy walk, seeming to drag his feet after him. These boys had various kinds of clothing, which it is impossible to describe: their clothes furnished them on the farm consisted of a dark shaggy cloth roundabout and homemade pantaloons of a dark color.

I will give $100 for the apprehension of either of these boys if taken out of the STate -- $50 for either if taken in any county in the State other than Fauquier and Prince William, and $25 if taken in either of those counties, and double those sums for both, if so detained that I get them again.  They left the farm without any cause whatever, and it is impossible to imagine what route they have taken: the presumption is, they are making their way to Pennsylvania.

N. TYLER
Warrenton, Fauquier county, Va.,

Jan. 3


Mason and Spencer are about 22 or 23 years of age. Since the above was written, I have had reason to believe that a boy belonging to William Stuart, of Fauquier county, accompanied my boys. His name is Parker, he is about 5 feet 11 inches high, dark complexion, spare and straight, and supposed to be about 20 years of age.

Jan. 6 - 2awd&ctf.