The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916Various
History
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
Various
African Americans -- Periodicals
[1] This advertisement appears also under another heading.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD
For Jack who has again run-away.
The subscriber's servant Jack, who calls himself John Leech, again
absconded last night. He is a short well made young Mulatto, probably about
five feet five inches high, about twenty-five years of age, and plausible;
he has a thick bushy head of hair, like a negro's; thick lips, a film on
his left eye, over which he sometimes wears a peace of green silk. He
belonged when he was a child, to the late Ephraim Mitchell, esq. deceased,
and afterwards to Francis Bremar, esq. from whom the subscriber bought him.
He is well acquainted all over the state, having waited upon his former
masters when traveling, and also upon the subscriber when he went on the
Circuits. HE CAN WRITE HIMSELF AND MAY FORGE A PASS OR CERTIFICATE OF
FREEDOM. He had on, when he went off, a pair of overalls, and waistcoat of
servant's cloth of a light grey mixed colour almost new, and carried
several changes with him nearly of the same colour, and several coatees
like them, with capes, cuffs and welts to the pockets of green cloth; but
he may change his clothes; he also carried away a great coat of a drab
colour spotted. He may go to Goose-creek or to the vicinity of Belville,
Statesburg or Columbia, or attempt to go to the northward, but if its most
suspected, that he will endeavour to get on board of some vessel. Whoever
will deliver him to the subscriber, or to the Master of the Work-house or
lodge him in any gaol of the State, shall receive the above reward, and if
he should be harboured by any one that the reward will be doubled upon the
harbourers being prosecuted to conviction by the informer. All Masters of
Vessels and others are warned against employing him or carrying him out of
the city.
LEWIS TREZVANT.
_The Carolina Gazette_, Feb. 4, 1802.
SLAVES IN GOOD CIRCUMSTANCES
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD
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