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Allegheny County Miscellaneous Items
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The items below contain information of value in documenting the bound and free African and African American presence in the region. These are typically documents, newspaper articles or period advertisements that don't fit neatly into the pages on enslavement, yet place certain individuals in a specific place and time or contain threads of association.
- Levin Planter and Daniel Meadad Have Freedom Papers. Text of newspaper notice:
Notice.
Source: Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 29 July 1806.
WAS committed to the Jail of Franklin county, on the 14th inst. on suspicion of being runaways, a White Boy and a Negro Man.
The Negro is near 50 years of age, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, has a small scar across his nose, is pretty stout built, and cannot or will not speak, but apparently can hear; he had on tow linen shirt and trowsers. The white boy calls himself Levin Planter, -- he is about 14 or 15 years of age, of a very dark complexion, slender made, and is very pert with the tongue. He says the negro's name is Daniel Meadad -- that they formerly were servants to a Mr. Able Teackle, who removed from the Eastern shore (Md) to Pittsburg, where he died, and that they are now on their way to Baltimore. They have in their possession certificates or passes, signed "Thomas Cooper," which certify the same. Their master or masters are requested to come forward and take them out, or they will be liberated agreeably to law.
JOHN SNIDER, Jailor.
Chambersburg, July 21, 1806.