Chowan-Bertie County NcArchives News.....Ben and Celia, Runaways May 18, 1819
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Tuesday, May 18, 1819  Edenton Gazette May 18, 1819
   $100 REWARD -- Runaway from the subscriber on Sunday night, the 2nd 
instant, Negro man, BEN and his wife, CELIA. BEN is 23 or 24 years old, rather 
under the common size and very black. Celia is about the same age and height 
of Ben, a bright mulatto, slim made, and has a pleasing coutenance.They will 
no doubt attempt to return to MR. EPHRAIM ELLIOTT'S neighborhood in the upper 
part of Chowan County, from whom they were purchased, and to whom the mother 
of CELIA belongs, or may visit the lower end of Gates County, where they are 
well known. The above reward will be given for taking up the said Negroes, and 
lodging them in any gaol so that I can get them or $50 for either, and all 
reasonable expenses, if brought home to me at Salmon Creek, Bertie County.
                                                 STARK ARMISTEAD
May 3rd, 1819

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