1800-12 Freedom Seeking: Matthew Fairfax
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00800
- Source
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Runaway pickup notice for Matthew Fairfax and Levi Brown, by Peter Keenon
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Runaway pickup notice for Matthew Fairfax and Levi Brown, by Peter Keenon, "TWO NEGROMEN," Guardian, Or, New-Brunswick Advertiser, March 27, 1801, p. 4. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Loose Newspaper Collection (Ac. 3193). Box 27, Folder 15.
- Event Description
- Matthew Fairfax escaped in the Chesapeake region in 1800 (or earlier). He had a forged pass from Fairfax County, Virginia. He was later apprehended in Middlesex County, New Jersey. See the related jailing event for Matthew Fairfax for details.
- Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- December 1800
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Location of Event
- Fairfax County, Virginia
- Related Place
- Middlesex County
- Following Event
- 1801-01-01 Jailing: Matthew Fairfax, Levi Brown
- Primary Participants
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Matthew Fairfax (b. ca. 1776)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01953
Role: Runaway
Age: 25
Status: Enslaved
Verbatim description from source:
"MATTHEW FAIKFAX, black, about five feet eight inches high, and about 25 years old, speaks quick, and plays on the violin, had a forged pass, from Fairfax county in Virginia, and from his dialect, supposed to be from Maryland or Virginia" - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson