200 Dollars Reward,
WILL be paid to any person delivering on my plantation my
negro TOM, but on paying the above reward he must be clear
of all further expenses. Said negro Tom ranaway in February
last, he is above forty years of age, more than six feet high,
(English measure) and stout in proportion, his legs all of a
shape, and rather thin ; he has one of his injured, that is to say,
larger than the others, occasioned by a cut with an axe, which
split it in two length ways ; he has on his stomach an hernia
the size of a pidgeon egg ; he speaks French and English well.
Said negro when young belonged to Mr. Conan, and he was
lately taken up at Yberville, from where he once more eloped.
From what I can learn, he appears to endeavour to get to Baton
Rouge, Natchez or Kentucky. He is a carpenter by trade.
François St. Amand,
First German Coast.
April 3.