"...I Claiborne Clifton... do nominate ordain & appoint Major John McLemore... to ask for, Demand & receive from the Keeper of the Common Jail in the Town of Salisbury, North Carolina... a certain Negro man - slave about forty years old and an African by birth named Toney, and otherwise described by an Advertisement edited in Salisbury, who ranaway from my plantation on the Congaree..."
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Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection, #4681. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
