Twenty POUNDS Reward. RUN AWAY from the Subscriber, living in Amherst County, on the 5th of March, 1781; a likely Virginia born negro man, named TOM, of a yellow complexion, he is now about 25 Years of Age, 5 Feet 9 or 10 Inches high, is a very strait trim made Fellow, with a very smiling countenance; he has a scar on the back of his right hand, also one on his Breast, which I believe to be Burns. I have reason to believe that he is lurking about some town. He is a a [sic] tolerable good hand in a House or Stable, as it has been chief of his Business and don't doubt but he is passing for a Freeman. Any person apprehending the said Slave, so that I get him again, shall have TEN POUNDS Reward, and the above Reward for delivering him to me. JAMES GRESHAM.
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