Twenty Dollars Reward
WILL be given to any person who will secure
Negro Charles,
In jail and send an assurance thereof by post to Thomas Ambrose,
adjoining Isaac Johnston, Esq. Alexanders Creek, New
Feliciana, or if in New Orleans, will deliver the jailors receipt
to Mr. John P. Sanderson.
The said negro is a native of Virginia though brought out in
Lexington Kentucky, speaks English only, can read print tho’
stammeringly boasts greatly, is much disposed to talk, is fond
of dress and exceeding vain and foppish, dresses generally in
an American soldiers uniform coat, and has with him a leather
frock and a pair of white cassimer breeches, he has probably
changed his dress. He is about five feet seven inches high,
stout and well made, complexion yellowish, nose flat, and lips
thick, his voice very coarse ; aged about twenty-five years. It
is supposed he will pretend to be free and try to get employment
on board a ship and get a birth to go abroad, as he lately
worked on ship board several days while his master was waiting
in town for the departure of Mr. Thomas Young’s batteau
(bound to Bayou Sarah) about the nineth or tenth of the month.
He absconded from his masters house the night of the twenty
nineth of last month, after being whipt for stealing a piece of
Platillas out of a case on board the said batteau.
Thomas Ambrose.
New Feliciana, 10th May 1805.