TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
REWARD
Ran away
from the subscriber, a light coloured negro man, he is about twenty fice ro twenty
six years of age; five feet six or seven inches high; he has lost one of the
joints of his third finger, on which hand is not recollected; his clothing was
an old fur hat, a negro cotton round about jacket, dark colored country cloth
overalls, coarse stockings and shoes.
Whoever takes up the said negro man and brings him home, or secures him
in any jail so that I get him again,
if taken thirty miles from home, shall receive twenty dollars, if twenty miles
fifteen follars, if ten miles eight dollars, and if out of the district of
Columbia or the state of Maryland, the above reward.[1]
The
above negro calls himself Toby Reed.
All
persons are forwarned [sic] harbouring or employing him.
JOHN
WILSON of Henry,
Near
Bladensburg.
Aril
[sic] 4, 1809.[2]
[1] One
dollar in 1809 = approx. 13.866; $20.00 in 1809 = $277.32 in 2010; $10.00 =
$138.66; $8.00 = $110.92 http://mykindred.com/cloud/TX/Documents/dollar/index.php?cyear=2010
[2] Washington
Federalist.; Date: 04-08-1809; Issue: 2066; Page: [4]; Location: Georgetown,
District of Columbia.
Transcribed by John Peter Thompson April 8th, 2013.
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