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MG-A(G.772.019
2 Apr 1772:32 (1386)
Newport, Charles County, March 10, 1772. Ran away from the
subscriber's plantation, near Bryan-Town, a mulatto man
slave called Stephen Butler; he is a lusty fellow, about 6
feet 2 inches high, thin faced, has a small scar on the
right cheek-bone, . . . [5 lines, description and clothing.]
He plays on the fiddle, works at tight coopering, sawing and
wheelwork, is by trade a carpenter, has been pretty well
known as a runaway for these 30 years, and has so great a
correspondence amongst many white people, that he never was
once taken only by myself. He has confessed to me and many
others where he has been harboured and whose houses he
resorted; that he has worked for several by stealth, whose
names I shall pass over in silence at this time, but for the
future, if I can possibly make proof either against white or
black, I will proceed against them as the law directs. He
is a very great liar, an insinuating fellow, and if taken
into custody will endeavour to make his escape. . . [terms,
ten dollars in this county, twelve in any other, and, if
fifty miles from home or out of the province, ten pounds.
signed] Leonard Boarman (w6)
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