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VGW(HU.769.022
16 Mar 1769:42 (930)
Ten pounds reward. Run away from the subscriber's
plantation, in Loudoun county, from James Whaley, overseer,
on last Easter monday, Tom, a Negro man slave, by some
called Tom Salter, of a middle size, well made for strength,
about 38 years old, has bad teeth, and many small pimples
about his beard; he can read, and play on the fiddle, and
had a variety of clothes, but his common working dress was
died brown cotton. He managed several years as an overseer
for me, under Capt. Robert Downman, at a plantation of mine
on Morattico creek, in Richmond county, where he always
lived until lately. He is a dissembling artful fellow, and
generally smiles when he speaks. I suspect he is lurking
about a plantation belonging to Charles Carter, Esq; in
Hanover county, at or near South Wales, where he has a wife
named Sebra, and perhaps at times about his old haunts at
Morattico. . . [terms, signed] Henry Lee.
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