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VGW(RI.769.026
16 Mar 1769:41 (149)
Twenty Pounds Reward. Run away from the Neabsco Ironworks,
in Virginia, on or about the 10th of October last, a country
born Negro man slave named Billie, the property of the
Honourable John Tayloe, Esq; he is about 30 years of age,
very black, well made, 5 feet 8 inches high, put on a sour
look when taxed with any thing amiss: he had on and took
with him, when he went away, a blue broad cloth coat, black
cotton velvet jacket, and sundry other sorts of cloaths,
besides shoes and stockings of various kinds: He is by
trade a ship carpenter, and is such a proficient in that
business as not only to repair, but to build all sorts of
small craft. . . [8 lines, another man] As Billie was some
time last summer brought from Carolina (to which place,
under the sanction of a forged pass, he had travelled as a
freeman) it is more than probably that if he is not now
engaged by some ship builders to the northward, that he will
endeavour to get on board some craft, bound for Charles-
town, or to some place in Carolina, where he expects to be
free. . . [8 lines, terms, signed] Thomas Lawson.
N.B. Billie plays on the violin.
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