Runaway Ad for Isaac and Moses from White Marsh, 1803
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In response to Ashton's advertisement from January 23, 1803, the Rev. Germain Barnabas Bitouzey, a secular priest, submitted his own advertisement in The Maryland Gazette. As the new manager of the White Marsh estate he warned individuals "from any way troubling or arresting" Isaac and Moses in response to Ashton's past advertisement.
Bitouzey describes Isaac and Moses as "being and having been from their infancy, a part of the property belonging to the estate commonly called the White Marsh, Prince-Georges county."
Ashton had been a Jesuit priest (the Society was formally suppressed at this time) and was one of the founders of Georgetown.
There are several advertisements for people who had escaped from Ashton at White Marsh in the Maryland State Archives' Legacies of Slavery in Maryland database.
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Forty Dollars Reward, or Twenty for each. I PROMISE to give the above reward to any person that will deliver to me two runaways, ISAAC, a carpenter, about 57 years old, and MOSES, a lad, about 15 years old’ or ten dollars each, if committed to Upper-Marlborough gaol. I live near Port Tobacco, in Charles county. JOHN ASHTON. All persons are forewarned from harbouring the negroes. January 23, 1803.
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The two negroes described in the above advertisement, being and having been from their infancy, a part of the property belonging to the estate commonly called the White Marsh, Prince-Georges county, and actually in the possession of the subscriber, who holds the said estate. He therefore forewarns any person or persons from any way troubling or arresting the said negroes belonging to him, under pretence of their being advertised, as the law will be put in force against the offender.
G.B. BITOUZEY. |