Runaway Mulatto.
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200 DOLLARS REWARD
The subscriber offers TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD
to any person apprehending and delivering to him in the County
of Acadia, a mulatto man named PETER, who calls himself
Narcissus, Honore and St. Phillippe, who did ranaway from the
said subscriber’s plantation since the 14th of February 1804.
He was born on the German coast and was raised at Opelousas,
about 28 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, handsome face,
fine black eyes, large breast, large thighs and legs ; he has two
small white spots on the lower part of his Cheeks ; he has an
oblong mark on his backhand several on the different parts of
his body arising from whipping. He passes himself as a freeman
and has worked not long since at Baton-Rouge as a shoemaker
where he called himself Narcissus. Privious to this he
worked in the building of a house at Bayou aux Pierres above
Natchez. He is carpenter, cabinet-maker, turner, wheelwright,
cooper, saddler, shoe-maker and a very good house servant, he
might also engage himself as a cook.
Jacques Roman.
County of Acadia.
July 13.