{"id":3362,"date":"2015-03-08T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2015-03-08T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T20:24:17","slug":"runaway-ben-1802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/runaway-ben-1802\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Ben &#8211; (1802)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twenty Dollars Reward &#8212; Ran away from the Subscriber on the 21st of March last, a Mulatto Man by the Name of <strong>Ben<\/strong>, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet eight or ten Inches high. \u00a0He is a very lively active fellow, spare Made, and is mixed some with Indian Blood. \u00a0I expect he will try to pass for a free Man. \u00a0Had on when he went away a course Wood Hat, a Homespun Coat, Vest and a Pair of Overalls; and took with him a short Coat, a Pair of small-cloathes and white Pair of Cotton Stockings. Also took a Pair of Saddle-bags.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He was raised in Granville County, North Carolina, near the Head of Nut-bush Creek. \u00a0He has a Wife in said County, and some Relations in Halifax; and it is likely he may aim to one of those Places.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whoever will apprehend said Mulatto, and deliver him to <strong>Lewis REAVIS<\/strong>, Esq., of Granville County, or secure him in some Jail, and send me Word, so that I get him again, shall receive the above Reward, and all reasonable Charges paid. &#8212; <strong>Arthur HARRIS,<\/strong> Montgomery County, April 24th<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: Raleigh Register, and North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser, 18 May 1802.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty Dollars Reward &#8212; Ran away from the Subscriber on the 21st of March last, a Mulatto Man by the Name of Ben, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet eight or ten Inches high. \u00a0He is a very lively active fellow, spare Made, and is mixed some with Indian Blood. \u00a0I expect he will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,30,78,582,914],"tags":[2970,2972,2971],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-granville","category-halifax","category-montgomery","category-raleigh-register","tag-no-last-name-ben","tag-harris-arthur","tag-reavis-lewis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Se","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}