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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.
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Cora Marshall, born in Washington, DC, received her B.F.A. from Howard University; Master of Science in Education from Bank Street College of Education with Parsons School of Design; and her doctorate in art from New York University. Dr. Marshall, Professor Emeritus, served as chairperson of the Department of Art at Central Connecticut State University 2006 - 2012. Marshall has exhibited both internationally and nationally including National Conference of Artists; Kumasi, Ghana; A.I.R. Gallery NYC; Skylight Restoration Gallery in Brooklyn; Hammonds House Gallery in Atlanta; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Craftery Gallery, in Hartford; the Rosenburg Gallery at NYU; and Picture That, LLC, Stamford, CT with multiple venues. Dr. Marshall's...