Ned and Fountain, Tennessee, 1833

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Title: Ned and Fountain, Tennessee, 1833
Description: Printed broadside offering a $25 reward for recovery of these enslaved men, ages 23 or 24 and 19, respectively, who escaped from a plantation in Monroe County, Tennessee.

The reward was offered by Isaac Murray, who was then visiting Florence, Alabama. The broadside was printed at the offices of the Southern Advocate newspaper in Huntsville, Alabama.
Transcript: $25 REWARD.
RUN AWAY on the 12th day of March last, from the subscriber living in Monroe county East Tennessee, a negro man named NED, of a very light complexion; remarkably white or blue eyes; about 5 feet high; 23 or 24 years of age; weighs about 125 pounds; slim, and his a very flat foot; had on when he eloped a blue broadcloth coat, common white cotton pantaloons, a chipped hat and various other clothing. He went off in company with Jeremiah Lillard's negro FOUNTAIN, a dark mulatto boy 19 years old. The procured a canoe in Rhea county and proceeded down the Tennessee river to Ross's, where they left the canoe and directed their course of the Lookout Mountain to the river, and again embarked in another canoe, keeping on the South side of the river. The probability is that they are aiming for the State of Illinois; therefore the subscriber would beg Captains of Steamboats, commander of flat boats and all others, to keep a look out for these runaways. The above reward will be paid if delivered to the subscriber or secured in any jail so that I get them again, and all reasonable expenses paid.
April 19th, 1833
ISAAC MURRAY.
P. S. Letters giving information of the above negroes may be forwarded to Florence A. for the next 10 or 12 days, where he will remain for that length of time; after which, all communications on the subject must be directed to Madisonville, Monroe county, East Tennessee.
ISAAC MURRAY.
Fariss, printer.....Advocate Office, Huntsville.
Date: 9 April 1833
Coverage: Monroe and Rhea Counties, Tennessee; Lauderdale and Madison Counties, Alabama
Source: Digitized item
Is Part Of: Reward broadside for runaway slaves (MSS.3761)

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