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Note: N1046 Reuben Meriwether
© The Meriwether Society, Inc.
Reuben inherited property from his father in Louisa County, Virginia, but family tradition has that on attaining his majority he sold his share and moved to Maryland, and that he was aided in his career (as well as by his own money and efforts) by his half-uncle John Morton Jordan. Reuben was appointed agent for Jordan and assumed his post in 1768 in Annapolis, the same year he married Sarah Dorsey, whose father was a wealthy landowner. Reuben owned a plantation of a thousand acres in what was Anne Arundel (now Howard) County, Maryland, called "Roundabout Hills".
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Note: N1049 The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser (Baltimore, Maryland) 17 July 1787
Five Pounds Reward
Ran Away, from the subscriber, living in Anne-Arundel County, Maryland, on the upper part of Elk Ridge, near Poplar Spring Chapel, on Sunday the first inst. a likely country born Negro Man, named Harry, aged about 29 years, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, of a yellow complexion in the face, has a proud swaggering walk, a large thick beard, small feet, but very broad across the first joint of his toes & when spoken to is apt to smile, and will be very impertinent in this answers; he is a strong well-set fellow; his dress, when he went away, was only an oznaburg shirt, and a pair of old coarse blue cloth breeches, with the buttons cut off the knees, and a rusty old castor hat; he had neither shoes, stockings or jacket on; he has on an iron collar, but it is very likely he will get it off, and steal clothes, and change his dress.
I purchased him about nine years ago, of Colonel Warner Washington, at Battle Town, in Frederick County, Virginia. He ran away about three years ago, and stole one of my work mares, and went into that neighborhood, to a Mr. John Ariss's. I expect he will now steal a horse and go there again, or to Baltimore Town, or endeavor to get into Pennsylvania, and there pass for a freeman. Fifty shillings will be given for taking and bringing home to me, the said fellows, if 40 miles from home, with all reasonable charges, or in proportion for a greater or less distance, or the above Reward for the Fellow, if taken out of State, and brought home to me.
He ought to be well secured with irons when taken, otherwise he will certainly make his escape - All masters of vessels, and others, are hereby forbid to harbor, employ or carry off the said fellow at their peril.
Reuben Meriweather,
July 10, 1787
The same add ran every week until October 26, 1787.
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