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her mother believed that, her daughter had become dutiful & forgotten Stephen, when one morning Mamma found it requisite to go to the plantation left her by her brother, leaving F _ at home. Now F _ had a faithful Negress about her own age & 'raised' in the family, she was dispatched with great secrecy to Stephen, informing him to repair immediately to a part of the "Timber" hard by F _s residence well mounted, to bring his sister "along" and a spare horse. All turned out well to the letter, & off the three were to a neighboring town. The house servants shortly discovered that "young Missy F _ gone & dat the Missy kill all de niggers on the plantation when she Come home" "Come home indeed" cried an old negress "If you wish no to be killed run to old Missy & tell her young Missy gone - & tenk runaway wid Massa Stephen" David

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