Richmond, Feb. 15, 1787. Run away from the subscriber, the 17th of December, 1786, a negro man, named JACK, formerly the property of Mr. Robert Brooke, of Essex, and sold by the said Brooke, to Mr. Francis Graves, of this city, and by him to Mr. William Reynolds, of whom I purchased him. He is outlandish, and speaks broken English, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, about 45 or 46 years of age, of a thin visage, spare made, and pug nose; he had on, when he went away, an old blue cloth coat and waistcoat, a pair of cord duroy breeches, Osnabrigs shirt, coarse hat; he stole and carried off also, a servant's coat of green plains, which had been opened in the back and pieced with cloth of a darker colour. I have some reason to suppose he is in the neighbourhood of Mr. Brooke, where he has several children, or at Mr. Brooke's near Fredericksburg, or in that Town. All masters of vessels are forewarned from taking him out of the State, and all other persons from harbouring him. He may be easily known from his fondness of liquor, and talking of horses, and his knowledge of them. Any person who apprehends said Negro, and confines him, so that I get him again, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS Reward, and reasonable expences paid if brought home. CHARLES JONES.
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