Citation - Virginia Gazette-Richmond (Hayes): 1782.03.30

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Index Entry Fitzhugh, William, owner of runaway Negro named Moses who plays violin 
Location King George Ct 
Citation
VGR(HA.782.012
30 Mar 1782:41 (1/15) 
Marmion, King George County, March 12, 1782.  Ran away last
summer to the British pirates whilst in Potomack River, a
swarthy Negro man named Moses, about 50 years old, nearly 6
feet high, slim and strait made, is bald in a slip from his
forehead past the crown of his head; has a smiling, easy,
insinuating way of speaking; is a very good blacksmith, and
a tolerable shoemaker, and plays on the violin.  He was seen
in York after Cornwallis's surrender very well, I therefore
presume that he passes in some of the lower counties for a
free man, and works at one or both of his trades in a
circumscribed way.  Whoever delivers the said fellow to me
shall receive twenty pounds specie, or on information where
I may get him, shall have a handsome reward from [signed]
William Fitzhugh.


Generic Title Virginia Gazette-Richmond (Hayes) 
Date 1782.03.30 
Publisher Hayes, James 
City, State Richmond, VA 
Year 1782 
Bibliography B0047892
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