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ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1858. 457
As the other two companions of John \Vesley were advertised in the Baltimore Sun, we avail ourselves of the light thus publicly afforded:
$ 200 REWARD.—Ran awny from the subscriber, living oa the York Turnpike, eight miles from Baltimore city, on Sunday, April llth, my negro man, JACOB', a.jed 20 years ; "> feet 10 inches high ; chestnut color; spare made ; pood font ores. I will give 850 reward if taken in Baltimore city or county, and $200 if taken out of the State and secured in jail 30 that I get him ag-tin. a!3-3t*;| WM. J. B. PARLETT.
" JACOB," answering to the description in Mr. Wm. J. B. Parlctt's advertisement, gave his views of the man who had enslaved him. His statement is here transferred from the record book: " My master," said Jacob, " was a farmer, a very rough man, hard to satisfy. I never knew of but one man who could ever please him. He worked me very hard; he wanted to be boUling me all tbe time." This \vas a luxury which Jacob had no appetite for, consequently lie could not resist signifying his unwillingness to yielu, although resistance had to be made at some personal risk, as his master had " no more regard for a colored man than he had for a stone under his feet." With him the following expression was common: "The niggers are not worth a d-n." Xor was his wife any better, in Jacob's opinion. "Slit1 wns a cross woman, and as much of a boss as he was." "She would take a club and with both hands would whack away as long as you would stand it." "She was a large, homely woman; they were common white people, with no reputation in the community." Substantially this was Jacob's unvarnished description of his master and mistress.
As to his age, and also the name of his master, Jacob's statement varied somuwhat from the advertisement. For instance, Jacob Taylor was noticed on the record book as being twenty-three years of a |