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PG-P.757.063
25 Aug 1757:43 (1496)
Middletown, Monmouth County, East New Jersey, Aug 1, 1757.
Run away from the subscriber the first of January, twelve
months past, a Negroe man. named Cato, who has since his
elopment changed his name several times: Had on when he
went away, a pair of buckskin breeches, fine brown linen
shirt, a plain made whitish camblet coat, dark yarn
stockings, new shoes, and a wool hat. He is a stout well
set fellow, understands husbandry in all its parts, an
excellent hand with a scythe in grass or grain, speaks
English as well as if country born, and pretends to be free.
Underneath his right-shoulder blade he was branded in
Jamaica when a boy with the letters BC, which are plain to
be seen. He plays poorly on the fiddle, and pretends to
tell fortunes. It is supposed he has a forged pass.
Whoever secures the said Negroe, so that his master may have
him again, shall receive a reward of five pounds and
reasonable charges, paid by [signed] Richard Stillwell.
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