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Virginia Gazette
(Purdie & Dixon), Williamsburg ,
October 17, 1766.
RUN away from the subscriber at Newcastle, a Negro boy named SAM, born in New York; he is about 4 feet 6 inches high, good deal pitted with the smallpox, has thick lips, and speaks lisping; had on an old blue kersey wove broadcloth coat, with basket buttons of the same colour, a light mourning waistcoat, with white metal buttons, a leather cap a good deal cracked, and a pair of old boots, or shoes with yellow metal buckles. Whoever brings the said lad to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS reward, exclusive of what is allowed by law.
THOMAS THOMAS.
Reprint: Windley, vol. 1, p. 47.
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