Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1755.04.07

NYGWPB.755.010
7 Apr 1755:33 (636)
Run away from the heirs of Barent Van Cleck, of
Poughkeepsie, deceased, on Tuesday the 23d instant March, a
mulatto colour'd Negro man slave, named Tom, pock-broken,
about 5 feet 10 inches high, a well-set likely fellow, plays
well on the fiddle, and can read and write. . .  gives
notice thereof to Leonard Van Cleck, or Myndert Veile, of
Dutchess County, shall receive five pounds reward. . .