Spanish-Town, April 4, 1801.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, the three following NEGROES,
viz.
LETTICE, sometime in the month of October, 1795, a Congo,
about 50 years of age, stout made, and middle feature; she is
supposed to be concealed in Cedar-Valley Muntains, where
some years since, she had a husband, named Ratcliffe, by whom she had two or three children; she formerly was the property
of Miss Millpoint Fletchr, dec.
ARGYLE, on the 9th February, 1800, an Eboe, blind of one
eye [inc][…] within a circle; she was frequently seen on the
Race-ground, near this town, two or three months since, in the
afternoons, with bundle wood on his head, and may be harboured
on some pen in the vicinity of the town; he absconded for
some months in 1798, wnd was concealed in Above-Rocks,
until he quarelled with the person who harboured him – he
probably is returned to that quarter.
FRIENDSHIP, on the 13th of February last, an Angola, a new
negro, purchased about twenty months ago, she is very tall,
has filed teeth, and marked on both breasts W, within a circle,
also with her country marks all over her body, which are large
and occasion the skin to rise in hard instances which appear
like blisters.
The above reward will be paid on conviction of the person or
persons harboured either of them if white or free, of if slaves
Five Pounds. Any person taking up said Negroes, and lodging
them in any gaol or workhouse, or delivering them to the subscriber,
shall receive a PISTOLE for each.
J. WINTLE.