Twenty Dollars Reward
For JACK, who has again Run-Away.
THE Subscriber’s Servant JACK, who calls himself JOHN
LEECH, again absconded last night. He is a short well made
young Mulatto, probably about five feet five inches high, about
twenty-five years of age, and plausible: he has a thick, bushy
head of hair, like a negro’s; thick lips, a fi-m [?] on his left eye,
over which he sometimes wears a piece of green silk. He belonged
when he was a child, to the late Ephraim Mitchell, esq.
deceased amd afterwards to Francis Bremar, esq. from whom
the subscriber bought him.
He is well acquainted all over the state, having waited up on his former masters when travelling, and also upon the subscriber
when he went on the Circuits. He can write himself and
may forge a pass or certificate of freedom. He had on, when he
went off, a pair of overalls and waistcoat of servant’s cloth of a
light grey mixed colour almost new, and carried several changes
with him nearly of the same colour, and several coatees
like them, with capes, cuffs and welts to the pockets of green
cloth; but he may change his clothes; he also carried away a
great-coat of a drab colour spotted. He may go to Goose-creek
or to the vicinity of Belville, Statesburg or Columbia, or attempt
to go to the northward, but it is most suspected, that he
will endeavour to get on board of some vessel. Whoever will
deliver him to the subscriber, or to the master of the workhouse,
or lodge him in any gaol in the state, shall receive the
above reward, and if he should be harboured by any one, the
reward will be doubled upon the harbourers being prosecuted
to conviction by the informer. All masters of vessels and others
are warned against employing him or carrying him out of the
city.
Lewis Trezevant.
January 9.