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PG-P.756.057
29 Apr 1756:42 (1427)
Run away from the subscriber, living at Middletown, in East
New-Jersey, the 9th of January last, a Negro man, named
Cato, alias Toby, aged about 30 years, a lusty well set
fellow, full faced: Had on when he went away, a plain made
bearskin coat, with flat metal buttons, a white woollen
vest, wool bat and cap, a brown tow shirt, buckskin
breeches, wool stockings, a pair of pumps with large brass
buckles; he was branded when a boy, in Jamaica in the West
Indies, with B (and I think) C on his left shoulder blade;
he is a sly artful fellow, and deceives the credulous, by
pretending to tell fortunes, and pretends to be free, speaks
English as well as if country born, and plays on the fiddle;
it is thought he is gone towards the cedar swamps, and that
some base person has given him a pass. Whoever apprehends
the said slave, and secures him, so that his master may have
him again, shall receive forty shillings reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by [signed] Richard Stillwell.
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