St. George’s, Cape of Good Hope,
August 22, 1801.
RAN AWAY a Negro, named THOMAS, a Congo, marked on
the right breast WR; had on, when he ran away, a new Osnaburgh
frock and trowsers: He went from town last Wednesday,
12th instant, carrying a middling sized black leather trunk,
containing 6 pair string planters’ shoes, 3 new pantaloons of Russia sheeting, 6 hoes, and a coopers’ adze [inc]: He was
taken last Sunday near the Race-Course, pretending that the
trunk had been taken away from him by a white person, near
Rose-Hill Plantation: He has since escaped from two negroes,
that went up with him last Monday. Any person that can give
any account of the trunk, or deliver the Negro on the above
said Plantation, or to the subscriber, will be rewarded.
J. F. WILCKENS.