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Runaway Slave Frank Sought in Augusta Area
An advertisement from Clarke County seeks a Black man named Frank age about 30 to 35 who ran away from a subscriber in Columbia County on August 8. The notice describes his appearance, warns he may head toward Augusta or Virginia, and offers ten dollars plus fifteen cents per mile for delivery to Clarke County jail. It asks for letters to Clarke Court House.
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Walker, Skinner and Furey
Anthony Labuzan
Columbia Courthouse
Georgia
Lucy Lamar
William Binion Junior
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James & Allen Lovelace
Columbia County
Walter Leigh
August
Tom Young
Henry Kerby
Washington County
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Killis Bruce
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John Reeves
Hallifax Itpinia
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N. B
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Franklin County
Shepherd Gross
Incoln County
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Frank
Virginia
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Jack F. Cocke
Charleston
North Carolina
John Cormick
Ramsey and Wynn
Thomas Moore Fen
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John Fster
Ambrose Jones
Ephaim Sanders
Thomas Moore Fen’s
David York
Fleming
Justices Court
George Whitten
Sam’s Pool
Bad Phillipsy
Archer Magruder
James Ross
Wm. Fleming
Humphries
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