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PC.772.072
25 Jul-1 Aug 1772:1163 (290)
Ten Pounds Reward. Run away from the subscribers, living
near Soldier's Delight, in Baltimore county, Maryland, a
dark mulatto slave, who goes by the name of Charles Harding,
but formerly by the name of Dick, about 30 years of age . .
. [10 lines, physical description] is a carpenter and joiner
by trade, and can paint, which he learned of Lewis Allmorn,
of Nansemond County, in Virginia, who sold him to Edward
Voss, a bricklayer by trade, and worked in several parts of
Virginia, and when the said slave run away from him, he
lived in King and Queen county, near Rappahannock, and got
by water to Philadelphia, and from thence travelled through
Lancaster and York Counties to Hanover-town, and worked
there about a year, and from thence into Baltimore county,
near Baltimore-Town, where he continued from about the year
1765 to the year 1772 as a free man; and since he left his
former masters in Virginia has learned to read and write,
and to play on the violin; it is possible he may forge a
pass and change his name, as he has done before. He took
with him, a castor hat . . . [10 lines, clothing and terms,
signed] Samuel Owings, Jun. and Alexander Well.
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