Milus (Miles) and John (Ike), property of W. F. Luckey

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

The Greenesboro Weekly Gazette, Greensboro, Georgia, December 11, 1858

$40 Reward.

Runaway from the subscriber, two negroes named Milus and John. Milus is about 30 years old, medium hight [sic], weighs about 130 pounds, very black, teeth unsound, slow spoken, never looks a man in the face. John is about 30 years of age, dark complexion, weighs about 160 pounds, slow spoken. I will give the above reward to any one who will bring them to me, or lodge them in any safe jail so that I can get them—or will give one hundred dollars reward for proof to convict any white man who is harboring them.

W. F. LUCKEY

White Plains, Ga., Dec. 11-3t.

The same notice ran the following week; however, the names were different. Instead of Milus, it was Miles. John was now Ike. I assume in both cases; they are the same slave.

The Greenesboro Weekly Gazette, Greensboro, Georgia, December 18, 1858

$40 Reward.

Runaway from the subscriber, two negroes named Miles and Ike. Miles is about 30 years old, medium hight [sic], weighs about 130 pounds, very black, teeth unsound, slow spoken, never looks a man in the face. Ike is about 30 years of age, dark complexion, weighs about 160 pounds, slow spoken. I will give the above reward to any one who will bring them to me, or lodge them in any safe jail so that I can get them—or will give one hundred dollars reward for proof to convict any white man who is harboring them.

W. F. LUCKEY

White Plains, Ga., Dec. 11-3t.

References

• $40 Reward, The Greenesboro Weekly Gazette, Greensboro, Georgia, December 11 and 18, 1858.