Virginia Gazette or American Advertiser (Hayes),
Richmond, June 25, 1785.

RAN away from the subscriber, on the 3d day of November last, a likely country born negro man named TOM, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, 24 years of age, middling black, a well set, strong made fellow, very artful and cunning. It is supposed that he has a pass that was given to a certain James Scott, a free negro, by General Morgan, with which it is expected he will endeavor to pass for a free man. Any person apprehending the said Runaway and securing him so that I get him again, or for delivering his head, as he is out-lawed, shall have FIVE POUNDS reward, from me in Halifax County (Virginia) near the Court-house. JAMES HARDWICK. June 15, 1785.

Notes

• Reprint: not in Windley
  

• More Information: Advertised in Nicolson, June 25, 1785. See ad for DICK, of Halifax County, in the Virginia Gazette or American Advertiser (Hayes), January 3, 1784, who used the same pass. Also ad for JACK, of Cumberland County, Virginia Gazette or American Advertiser (Hayes), May 28, 1785, who also used the alias James Scott.