The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette and Weekly Advertiser (Nicolson & Prentis),
Richmond, January 18, 1783.

TWENTY POUNDS REWARD. WHEN the British army lay at Dan river, at the time of General Greene's retreat, PETER, a negro fellow the property of the subscriber went from Dobbin's ordinary and joined them. He is about five feet nine or ten inches high, a well set fellow, about twenty eight years of age, three scars on his forehead, and as many on each cheek, though scarcely perceivable, and a scar at the corner of one of his eyes, long white teeth, a very black fellow, his eyes inclined to be red, and is a good waggoner. Whoever will deliver him to the subscriber at Dobbin's ordinary, Caswell county, North Carolina, or secures him so that he may get him again, shall receive the above reward. HUGH DOBBIN.

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