120 Dollars Reward
RAN AWAY from the subscriber in the month of February last,
a negro fellow, named GEORGE, between twenty five and
twenty eight years of age, five feet ten or eleven inches high,
not real black, thick set and remarkably well made, somewhat
awkward about business, on examination of his back will be
found about one dozen marks of the whip, he has an impediment
(by a lisp) in his speech ; the said fellow has been seen
since he ranaway in the Cotile settlement, & the subscriber has
pretty strong reasons to believe his negro has been for some
time harboured in the said settlement, but expects he will be,
if not already, run off clandestinely by some person, for the
purpose of making sale of him.—
Therefore
100 DOLLARS REWARD
will be given for apprehending and bringing to justice such villain
or villains so employed in harbouring or secretly conveying
away said slave, and
TWENTY DOLLARS
and all legal charges paid for securing said negro so that his
master may get him again.
James Griffing
Rapide Parish, Cotile.
November 24.