The Geography of Slavery

Norfolk Herald (Willett and O'Connor),
Norfolk, August 1, 1799.

100 Dollars Reward. ABSCONDED from Portsmouth on the night of the 25th, or early on the morning of the 26th A Negro Woman named SUSAN , A boy named EDMOND , A girl named TABBY Susan is a big, fat, tawney Black Woman; Edmond a black Negro Boy, about 12 years old; Tabby, a black Tawney Girl about 10 years old. A Reward of FIFTY Dollars will be paid to any person that will lodge them in any jail. They formerly belonged to Mr. Chas. Bagwell, of Accomack County, and imagined they are gone there. Susan's husband is a free Negro Man named Dick, formerly the property of Mr. Richard Drummond, of Accomack county, has been accustomed to go by water; it is known he has been the cause of their absconding, and taking them off. One hundred dollars Reward Will be paid on securing them in jail, and convicting him of the fact, by applying to Mess. Daniel Stone & Co., Norfolk, or the subscriber in Portsmouth. ALEX. LECKIE, jun. Portsmouth, July 30.