Archives of Maryland
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John Reasons (b. circa 1794 - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-051228
Escaped from Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1831

Biography:

On September 30, 1831, John Reasons and his wife, Nancy, escaped from Thomas Hewitt's farm near Sudler’s Cross Roads. John was about thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old at the time. They escaped with another slave, William, who fled from Lewis Williamson's farm nearby. The slaveholders placed a runaway ad that ran from October 22 to December 10, 1831, in the Centreville Times and Public Advertiser. Cumulative reward: $100. The ad ran until December 10th of that year.1
 

1.     "100 Dol. Reward." Centreville Times and Public Advertiser 22 October 1831: 2.
 

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