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MJ.778.028
10 Nov 1778:21 (5/266)
Twenty-five pounds reward. Fork of Gunpowder, Baltimore
county. Nov. 9. 1778. Ran away, on the 5th inst. from Mr.
Dulany's plantation, in the Fork of Gunpowder, where the
subscriber lives, a young well set Negro man, named Tom,
about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, has a down look, and when
spoke to, leers with his eyes which are large and full; he
can play on the fiddle. Had on and took with him a pair of
new brown cloth breeches, a woollen milled cap of the same
colour, a country cloth jacket and breeches, patched with
blue, two new osnabrug shirts, a pair of new shoes, well
nailed in the heels and soals, and a pair of new milled
stockings, of a very pale blue colour; he also has a blue
broadcloth long skirted coat, a white ditto of same cut, a
black waistcoat and dark green breeches, which it is
supposed he has carried with him. whoever will apprehend
and deliver the said Negro to the subscriber, shall have the
above reward, with reasonable charges, paid by [signed]
George Fitzhugh.
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