DUMFRIES, October 14, 1769. FIVE POUNDS Reward. RUN away the night before last, a convict servant man named WILLIAM POWELL, about 40 years of age or upwards, he was born in some of the island counties in England, and speaks very plain English; he is about 5 feet 9 inche high, with short dark grey hair, writes a pretty good hand, and has probably wrote some letters or made out a pass, as he is an artful fellow; he had on when he went away a strong kersey jacket or short coat pretty much wore, a pair of buckskin breeches too large for him, a pair of Aberdeen ribbed coarse yarn hose, and a pair of good country shoes almost new; he has also taken with him an old pair of black cloaths, and some stockings and shirts. It is most likely that he is either gone down Potowmack river in some vessel, or got over to Maryland. Whoever takes up the said servant, and brings him to me, shall be paid Five Pounds, if taken twenty miles or upward from home, and if nearer Three Pounds. RICHARD GRAHAM.
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