Martin County NcArchives News.....Tom - Runaway Slave 1859
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Weekly Standard 1859
From the Weekly Standard of Raleigh, issue of 10 Aug. 1859

RUNAWAY

WAS TAKEN UP AND COMMITTED to the common jail of Martin, North Carolina on the 
2nd day of June, 1859, a negro man who says his name is TOM, and that he 
belongs to a MRS. CROSS near South Quay in Southampton County, Va. but that he 
was hired out for the present year to ELISHA LEE to work in the Turpentine 
Farm near Kingsville, South Carolina, from where he says he ran away on or 
about the first of April last. The said negro has his right eye out, very dark 
complexion, and badly dressed; he is about five feet seven inches high. The 
owner will please come forward and prove said negro according to the Acts of 
Assembly, and pay fee, etc. and receive his property.
                                  W.W. WARD, Sheriff
Martin County, North Carolina June 2, 1859

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