RUN away from my service at Williamsburg, on Saturday the 5th of this instant (March) a Negro boy named CHARLES, the property of Col. William Allen. He is 15 or 16 years of age, and but small; had on a green patched jacket, white cotton breeches, a new shirt, and chews and smokes much tobacco. He carried off with him a poor bay horse, about 14 and a half or 15 hands high, 6 eyars [sic] old, with a black mane and tail, has had a fistula in his shoulders, trots sometimes, but generally prefers a slower pace. He had also a new pair of leather bags, full of newspapers. Whoever will deliver the said boy, horse, and bags, to me in Charles City, shall be reasonably well rewarded for their trouble. WILLIAM DAVIS. N.B. He was seen crossing the bridge at the Capitol landing, and is supposed to be upon York river, and to have made up the country. W. D.
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