unknown, Susan [20]

Title: unknown, Susan [20]
Gender: Female
Biography: Susan escaped in October, 1809 from Nelson County enslaver Walter Harris, while traveling on a "Kentucky boat" on the Ohio River. She fled along with her husband, Baptist and another woman named Phoebe. Harris placed a newspaper ad offering a reward of $50 for the return of all three freedom seekers. They lost their pursuers on the Kentucky shore, somewhere near the Anderson Ferry and were spotted later in Xenia. They were thought to be headed to Springfield, Ohio. The reward ad described twenty-year-old Susan as "very heavy with child" at the time of the escape.
Birth date: ca 1789
Spouse(s): unknown, Baptist
Participant in: 1809- Help on the Kentucky shore
Resided in: Nelson County (Ky.)
Relationship: Enslaver(s): Harris, Walter
Bibliographic citation(s): "Fifty Dollars Reward, " Whig, Cincinnati, Oh., 8 November, 1809
Source(s): GenealogyBank.com

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