Fayetteville, NC 
Runaway Slave Advertisement
3 May 1845
Submitted by Fran Powell
fran@africanaheritage.com
           
 
From The North Carolinian, Fayetteville, NC Issue 03 May 1845:
 
THREE DOLLARS REWARD
Runaway from the subscriber on Friday night the 14th inst., an indentured bright 
mulatto girl, about 15 years old, slender made, with straight black hair, by the 
name of MARY ANN BOWEN. It is supposed she is in the neighborhood of Goodwin 
Bowen, a free man of color in Bladen County, on the Wilmington Road, about 6 
miles below the Westbrook Post Office, as her mother, Polly Bowen, who took her 
away, declared when she was hiring a horse and Carryall for that purpose, that 
she was going to Goodwin Bowen's, in Bladen County. The above award and all 
reasonable charges will be paid for returning said girl to me or putting her 
into any Jail in this state and giving information through the Post Office, so 
that I can get her again. All persons are cautioned against employing, harboring 
or entertaining said girl in any way as I shall prosecute them rigorously 
according to law. 
Joseph AREY [Fran's note: possibly Joseph ABEY, print faded to near illegible]
March 22 1845        [Noted next to date] 317-3r