Headline: Ten pounds reward
Publishing newspaper: New Bern, N.C. : North Carolina Gazette, or Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser
Date of advertisement: 1793-03-23
Page: 4
Time period (decade): 1790-1799
Person placing ad: David Blackshear
Date of departure: 1793-05-01
Slave name(s): Peter
Slaveholder: David Blackshear

Transcript:
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, about the first of May, a Negro man named PETER, about five feet nine inches high, 26 years of age, speaks good English, likely, well fed, and very black; he is also artful and sensible, and it is supposed will endeavour to pass for a free man.
Any person that will secure said Negro in Newbern Jail or deliver him to Mr. William Bush, shall receive the above reward.
DAVID BLACKSHEAR.
March 2.

Sources: North Carolina--History--1775-1865--Sources

Original format: clippings
advertisements

Source: Collection: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Digital Collections