. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . own, one blue and one dark; twojackets, one blue and one light; a white petticoat,two linsey jackets & two petticoats; two home madeshifts, one bonnet of lead colour trimmed with black,and a new pair of shoes. Whoever takes up andsecures said runaway in any jail, shall have, if takenup within 15 miles of home Five Dollars, and if agreater distance the above reward, to which will beadded all reasonable charges if brought back. Daniel Nead. February 21, 1806. It was not at all unusual for the Germans to free aslave by giving him manumissi
. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . own, one blue and one dark; twojackets, one blue and one light; a white petticoat,two linsey jackets & two petticoats; two home madeshifts, one bonnet of lead colour trimmed with black,and a new pair of shoes. Whoever takes up andsecures said runaway in any jail, shall have, if takenup within 15 miles of home Five Dollars, and if agreater distance the above reward, to which will beadded all reasonable charges if brought back. Daniel Nead. February 21, 1806. It was not at all unusual for the Germans to free aslave by giving him manumission papers, and much morefrequently they were freed by will, as was the case with 120 The Pennsylvania-German Society. Peter Hoeflich, one of the first settlers In Hagerstown,whose will directed that In relation to my negro manArnold, it is my will that he be emancipated in three yearsfrom the ist day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred andtwenty-five, but he must make up all lost time during thethree years that is lost from my death until he
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