Twenty Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY on Sunday night the 8th inst. from on board the
brig Adherbal, Capt. McMeal lately arrived from Baltimore, a
negro man named JIM, not very black, aged about 22 years,
about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, slender and well made and very
active ; he has remarkable high cheek bones and has a scar
on his left cheek, with short hair, lately been cut, he formerly
belonged to General Ridgeley of Baltimore, is a native of Maryland
and speaks only English ; he took away with him sundry
wearing apparel belonging to the crew of the said brig, consisting
of sailers’ cloathing, with one brown cloth coatee, cloth
pantaloons, cloth and silk waistcoats, linen and cotton shirts
and white neck-handkerchiefs marked W S, coton stockings,
boots, &c. Whoever apprehends the said runaway and deliver
him to the subscriber or lodge him in jail in this city, shall receive
the above reward and all reasonable charges paid.
Charles R. Hicks,
No. 20, St. Louis street.
New-Orleans, 11th May, 1808.
N. B. Masters of vessels and others are cautioned against harboring
or carrying off the said negro under such penalties as
the law directs.