Frank, a runaway

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

The Georgia Journal, Milledgeville, Georgia, September 22, 1818

NOTICE—Runaway from the subscriber living in Greene county, on the 24th August last, a negro man named FRANK; about twenty-five years of age, about six feet high, very black, a little knockneed, & of an African descent, his teeth have the appearance of being sharpened; he had on when he went off, a cambric shirt, striped homesun pantaloons, merseilles vest with brown holland back. Ten dollars reward will be given for his delivery to me at Hodge’s Ferry, or for confining him in any Jail so that I get him again.

JOHN HODGE
September 3