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VGW(RI.774.032
16 Jun 1774:32 (423)
Run away from the subscriber, about the 20th of April last,
a mulatto fellow named Peter Brown, a painter by trade, but
can do carpenter's work; he is 35 or 40 years of age, of a
dark complexion, five feet eight or nine inches high, slim
made, and has a thin visage, has lost several of his upper
foreteeth, is fond of singing, and can sing well. The said
fellow has several suits of clothes, therefore I cannot
describe his dress. He was some years past tried for a
robbery, but obtained the Governor's pardon on suffering one
year's imprisonment; after which he was sold to Mr. John
Fox, of Gloucester, with whom he lived one or two years; he
then run away, and passed for a free man in the counties of
King William, Caroline, and Hanover, where he was take up
and brought home. As he has a wife at Mr. Benjamin
Hubbard's, it is likely he may be lurking in that
neighbourhood, and as he was raised in Petersburg, it is
very probable he may be in those parts. Whoever will take
up the said runaway, and deliver him to me, at Osborne's,
shall receive forty shillings reward. [signed] Peterfield
Trent. . . [2 lines]
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