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Committed to the Work-House,
A NEGRO man, named Tom Copland, alias George, alias
Shedwick ; he is 5 feet 4 ¾ inches high, about 21 years of age, has a scar near the centre of his forehead, is clothed in a red
flannel shirt, blue trowsers and a black hat. He shipped himself
at Norfolk, in Virginia, as a seaman on board the sch. Industry,
Nash Dacost master, of Dartmouth, state of Massachusetts,
bound to Charleston ; but not having any papers to prove his
freedom, and seeing a Fellow answering his description advertised
in a Norfolk paper of the 18th of May, as having broke
out of Gaol, (being committed for not having freedom papers)
he, the said Master, thought proper to have committed here.
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