20 Dollars Reward,
_
Runaway from the subscriber two miles above
Bladensburg, a Negro Man about 37 years
of age, five feet 7 ir 8 inches
high, by the name of
Charles,
He is called by his comrades Charles North, had on, and took
with him one old Fine Hat, a short Claret colored coat striped swandown
waistcoat, country cloth overalls, Yarn stockings coarse negro shoes, coarse
shirt, white do.[1] The three left fingers on one of his hands
crook in by a burn when young, he plays the fiddle _ Whoever takes up the said
negro, brings him home or secures him in any jail so that I get him again,
shall receive if 20 miles Ten Dollars, if 10 miles Five Dollars and if out of
the District of Columbia, or the State of MAyrland, shall receive the above
reward paid by me.[2]
JOHN
WILSON of Henry.
March
18, 1803.[3]
[1] The
word ditto, abbreviated here as 'do', comes from the Tuscan language, where it is
the past participle of the verb dire (to say), with the meaning of “said”, as
in the locution “the said story”. from Wikipedia.
[2]
One dollar in 2010 = $14.482; ten dollars =
$144.82; Five dollars = $72.42 http://mykindred.com/cloud/TX/Documents/dollar/index.php?cyear=2010
[3] Washington
Federalist; Date: 03-18-1803; Issue: 445; Page: [2]; Location: Georgetown,
District of Columbia.
Transcribed by John Peter Thompson April 9th, 2013.
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