1821--Reward Ad for Peter Shelley
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Title
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1821--Reward Ad for Peter Shelley
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Date
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1821
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Formatted date
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1821-01-01
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Event type
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Escape
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Description
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Slaveholder Benjamin Waller offered a $200 reward for the return of an enslaved man named Peter Shelley, age 44 yrs. Shelley escaped by using a pass that was 10 years out of date. From a runaway notice from Gallatin County, Kentucky in the Lawrenceburg, Indiana Oracle as cited in the Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky.
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Bibliographic citation
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Coon, Diane Perrine. "Underground Railroad, Boone, Carroll, and Gallatin Counties," Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, page 899.