200 Dollars Reward.
RUN-away, in the spring of the last year, from this place, a
Young Fellow belonging to me, named JOHN, sometimes called
JOHNSON, at times calling himself JOHN HILL, at other
times JOHN HOWE. This fellow is about 5 feet 5 inches high,
23 years old, and is of a dull copper-colour, being the son of
a mulatto man and negro woman; his features are generally
ugly, his eyes remarkably large and prominent; he is sensible
and shrewd, civil in his manners and plausible in conversation;
he served his time with a cabinet maker, and has worked
as a journeyman with a Windsor chair maker; he is very ingenious,
and well acquainted with the use of the joiner tools.
John reads, and I believe can write a little. He probably made
some one of the Northern ports the place of his destination, or
perhaps Charleston. I will pay the above Reward to any person
who will deliver John to me, or to the Jailor in this place.
W. H. HILL.
Wilmington, N. C. June 10, 1803