Like many Bristol people with links to the Caribbean, Neal McNeal (the spelling varies), Hector's son, owned an enslaved African, although the legal status of enslaved people in England was never clear. This advertisement, from Felix Farley's Bristol Journal of 15 April 1758, offered a reward for the return of his 'Malotta boy' or dual descent personal servant. It described the runaway and what he was wearing. McNeal offered a five guinea reward (worth almost £700 today) to anyone apprehending the runaway, and threatening prosecution of anyone who helped to conceal him. Neal McNeal worked for the family firm of McNeill, Sadler & Claxton. Based in St Kitts, they were agents for the sale of enslaved Africans, the supply of goods to the plantations and the purchase of sugar.