Frank

In 1800, Edward Hand was taxed for one enslaved person (no gender) although the age is guessed to be thirty years old. Then, on the night of March 28th, 1802, an enslaved man named Frank, also about thirty years old, escaped from Historic Rock Ford. Three days later, Edward Hand placed an ad in the Lancaster Intelligencer offering a reward for Frank’s return. The ad ran from April until September, just after Hand’s death, of that same year. By November 1802, the Hand family’s priority was the sale of the property due to the need to satisfy debt revealed at the time of Hand’s death. No evidence pointing to Frank’s location has ever been discovered.