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MJ.778.017
13 Oct 1778:42 (5/259)
Forty dollars reward. Baltimore, September 22, 1778. Ran
away, on the night of the 21st inst. a Negro man, named Ben;
he is a stout well made young fellow, about 5 feet 8 inches
high, about 23 or 24 years of age, has had the small-pox, is
a shoemaker, and can do coarse work middling well; he used
to go by water in his former master's time, who lived at
Dover, and as he says he has a wife there, he may attempt
going that way, if not in some vessel from this town; he is
a good fiddler, takes snuff very frequently, and as he can
read and is a smart knowing fellow, he may endeavour to pass
for a free man.
. . . [15 lines on clothes worn and reward terms.]
[signed] George Helm
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