The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette (Purdie),
Williamsburg, June 16, 1775.

THREE POUNDS REWARD. FOR apprehending JAMES CLERK, a runaway servant, about 27 years of age, near six feet high, well made, short black hair, full faced, pock-fretted, and speaks the Yorkshire intermixed with the brogue. Since he left me he drove a waggon for Mr. Davis in Louisa, worked as labourer for Mr. Brown in King William, and as gardener for Mr. Price in Hanover county, which place he left the 19th of April, and said he intended to work at ditching in Spotsylvania. He owns he lived with me, but says he came in free, goes by his own name, seems a quiet well behaved fellow, and pretends to be master of almost every kind of employment. I suspect he works in or near Fredericksburg, and should take it kind of any Gentleman, who he may have worked for since the above date, to inform me which way he intended. ROGER NORTH. STAUNTON, Augusta county.

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