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Four Dollars Reward

RANAWAY from the subscriber living in the Borough of Pittsburgh, a negro indented servant named JAMES SNOW , about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, about 28 years of age, a handsome looking fellow, talks a great deal, and tolerably well, had on a London smoak cloth coat, a black striped cassimer jacket, a pair of drab coloured striped overalls--he took with him other cloaths.  Whoever apprehends him so that the subscriber may get him again shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges.

WILLIAM McMILLEN
December 1, 1797
[Pittsburgh Gazette, December 2, 1797]

Half a Dollar Reward

FOR apprehending Samuel Rollins an indented servant, who ran away from his master on the 6th inst.--He is about nineteen years of age, of a fair complexion, and is of a small stature for his age.--Whoever will deliver him to the subscriber, at his dwelling in Versailes township Allegheny county, shall receive the above reward only.

ANTHONY ROLLINS
April 11, 1798
[Pittsburgh Gazette, April 28, 1798]

Forty Dollars Reward

RAN away from the Subscriber, when on his way to Kentuckey, a negro man names JAMES; he is about 40 years of age, near 5 feet 10 inches high, is a very black negro and has lost one of his front teeth:--he left me at McKee's Port, and is  probable he may be still lurking about that place, or he may have returned to George Town, Maryland, from which place I removed.  The above reward will be paid to any person delivering the said runaway to Mr. John Whelen in Pittsburgh.

GERRARD S. BOARMAN
May 11, 1798
[Pittsburgh Gazette, May 12, 1798]

Transcribed by C. Anthony

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