| Citation |
VGR(HA.782.012
30 Mar 1782:41 (1/15)
Marmion, King George County, March 12, 1782. Ran away last
summer to the British pirates whilst in Potomack River, a
swarthy Negro man named Moses, about 50 years old, nearly 6
feet high, slim and strait made, is bald in a slip from his
forehead past the crown of his head; has a smiling, easy,
insinuating way of speaking; is a very good blacksmith, and
a tolerable shoemaker, and plays on the violin. He was seen
in York after Cornwallis's surrender very well, I therefore
presume that he passes in some of the lower counties for a
free man, and works at one or both of his trades in a
circumscribed way. Whoever delivers the said fellow to me
shall receive twenty pounds specie, or on information where
I may get him, shall have a handsome reward from [signed]
William Fitzhugh.
|