Virginia Gazette (Rind),
Williamsburg, February 22, 1770.

GREENWICH, Feb. 15, 1770. RUN away from the subscriber, in Gloucester county, the 5th instant, a very likely Virginia born Negro fellow named ADAM, of a yellow complexion, about 25 years old, near 6 feet high, by trade a sawyer and cooper; he had on when he went away a white plains waistcoat and breeches, knit yarn stockings, Virginia shoes, steel buckles, an oznabrigs shirt, and a felt hat. He carried with him a light coloured suit of cloth cloaths, and other things unknown, and some books; as he can read and write an indifferent hand, he purposed, when he went off, to forge himself a pass to go to Carolina, to pass as a freeman. I will give FORTY SHILLINGS reward, besides the allowance by law, to any person that delivers the said slave to me, or either of my overseers, in this county; and if taken in Carolina FIVE POUNDS. JOHN FOX.

Notes

• Reprint: Windley, vol. 1, p. 302, source, name, subscriber only.
  

• More Information: advertised in Rind, Supplement, April 26, 1770. See #v1770040500; Still at large in 1771, Purdie & Dixon, July 18, 1771. See #v1771070576.