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Virginia Gazette
(Purdie & Co.), Williamsburg ,
March 7, 1766.
HANOVER, March 1, 1766. RUN away from the subscriber, a Negro fellow named JOSEE, rather inclined to a yellow than black complexion, pitted with the smallpox, about 27 years of age, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, well made, has a sour ill natured countenance, and pretends to be a Spaniard, by his account born at Comana; he carried clothes with him which were new last fall, also some other old clothes; he has been used to go by water, and will probably endeavour to get aboard some vessel, in order to escape. Whoever brings the said fellow to me shall have 5 l. if taken within the colony, and if out of it 10 l.
GEORGE THOMAS.
Reprint: Windley, vol. 1, p. 38.
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