RUN away from the subscriber in Orange county, Virginia, the 31st of December, 1767, a servant man named THOMAS WISE, about 25 years old, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches, had on when he went away, a sagathy coat of a lightish colour, with metal buttons washed with silver, and lined with linen; a dark-kersey waistcoat lined with plaid, and metal buttons; on white shirt, one oznabrigs do. He is a man of fair complexion with reddish hair. He stole when he run away, a blue German serge waistcoat, with metal buttons, and a Virginia cloth do. without sleeves, also a Dutch gun square up the barrel about a foot, the stock has been cut for a bayonet; also a tin kettle that would hold about a gallon. He says that he is a Yorkshireman born, and talks broad. Any person that apprehends the said servant, and secures him in any gaol in this colony, so as I may get him, shall have forty shillings reward, and if in any other province four pounds, paid by JAMES MAGINESS.
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