50 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber’s plantation, in Opelousas.
A Mulatto Man named TOM, Born in Virginia, about five feet ten inches high, between
twenty-two and twenty-three years of age, stout and well formed
, a smart sensible fellow, and will no doubt endeavour to
pass for a white man, speaks French and English, and is a good
shoe-maker and […]. From his complexion he might be taken
for a white man, if his hair, which is of a whitish colour and
perfectly nappy, did not betray the negro.
The above reward will be paid to the person delivering him to
the manager on the plantation in Opelousas, or to the subscriber
in New-Orleans.
Christopher Adams,
New-Orleans, June 22d, 1815.