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CJ-B.777.044
30 Oct 1777:13 (75)
Fifty dollars reward!
Run away from the subscriber, on Thursday last, the 23d
inst. a Negro slave, named Diamond, about 5 feet 5 or 6
inches high, is well made, and his complexion a very deep
black; took with him a new light blue coat, with red capes
and cuffs, and yellow buttons, a white coat, jacket and
breeches, about half worn, a pair of black breeches, a pair
of buckskin ditto, three pair of linnen ditto, and a pair of
new English boots; he also took with him a violin, of which
he is very fond, tho' a miserable performer. . . [3 lines,
signed] W. Erskine.
N.B. The above Negro was heard to say he would go to
Newport.
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