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Runaway, Dick, from Washington Co., MD, Henry Boteler, 1794

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ItemID
wmsl210
IDEntry
8404
Creator
Washington Spy
Date
1794-12-17
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1790-1864
Body

20 Dollars Reward.

RANAWAY from the subscriber living in Washington County, State of Maryland, between
Sharpsburg and Harper’s Ferry, on Saturday the _____ inst. a Negro man named Dick, with a scar on one of his cheek bones. ___ years of age, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, had on when he went away a short ______ jacket, a pair of breeches of _____ made ___ a linsey of a _____
Colour, two coarse tow _____ and a fine one, two pair of coarse tow linen trowsers, one ____ ___ of it and nankeen ______ & a high crowned wool hat.

HENRY BOTELER
December 17, 1794