
Runaway Hannah

by Cora Marshall
Title
Runaway Hannah
Artist
Cora Marshall
Medium
Mixed Media - Acrylic, Wax, Washi, And Mixed Media
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Hannah (Fairfax/Arlington VA area) March 18, 1813
Thirty Dollars Reward. Ran away from Chesnut [sic] hill, the residence for the subscriber, in Fairfax county, a Negro Woman named Hannah. She is about 26 or 27 years of age, rather above the middle stature, slender and very black. Her wool was cut short on the fore part of her head, and she has lost one of her lower fore teeth and the rest have a loose appearance. She is an excellent cook, and understands all kinds of house work. She ran away first in March 1812, was brought home and went again in April, and staid til August, when she was taken up at the house of one Thorpe, in George-Town where she passed for a free woman, calling herself Mary, and was there put in jail---a short time after being brought home, she escaped again, and was for some time after in Alexandria, and it is now supposed she is harbored by Mr. Custis’s (Martha Washington’s Family?) negroes at Arlington, or is about the City or Navy Yard.
She spend the whole fishing season last year at some of the fishing shores, and will probably do the same this year if in this part of the country – When she was brought home in August she had the appearance of expecting an increase to her family sometime about January, and if she has not destroyed it, she has probably a young Child now.
I will give twenty Dollars to any person who will secure her in Jail so that I get get again and give information either to Mr. John Threlkeld near George-town or to Mr. William Maznadler in Alexandria, or Thirty dollars if taken at a greater distance from home than fifty miles. All persons are forewarned hiring or harboring said negro, as the law will certainly be put in force against them.
Catharine Brown. March 18. [1813]
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February 11th, 2018
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