Citation - Newport Mercury: 1783.01.25

NM.783.004
25 Jan 1783:41 (1113)
Twenty dollars reward.  Ran away from the subscriber of
Middletown, about the first of January inst. a justly stout
Negro man, named Cameroon, about 16 years old, about 5 feet
9 or 10 inches high, goes a little limping, one of his
ancles being considerably larger than the other, plays
pretty well on a fiddle . . . [clothing and conditions,
signed] Benjamin Gardner. . . . Middletown, Rhode Island,
January 16, 1783.