Ranaway,
ON Monday the 10th inst. from JOHN WHITING, turner, to
whom he was bound apprentice, the subscriber’s Mulatto Slave
PETER, known by the names of Sy or Syrus ; about 15 years
old, 4 feet 10 or 11 inches high ; he is a very fair Mulatto, and
may possibly pass himself for a white boy ; he has strait brown
hair, and a very large scar on his head ; he speaks French and
English ; he has been trying to enlist himself on board the gun
boats, and has offered himself on board a vessel bound to Philadelphia
as cabin boy ; his mother is a native of St. Domingo.
Masters of vessels and all others are hereby cautioned against
harbouring or carrying him off the State, as they will be prosecuted
to the utmost rigour of the law.—Fifteen Dollars reward
will be paid to any person delivering him to the master of the
work house or to No. 22, Tradd-street.
Mary Brailsford,
august 21.