1808: NC - John Phillips, Subscriber of Runaway Slave

TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber in Person county, on the 5th instant, a Negro Man named TOM, 21 years old, dark complected, about 5 feet 8 inches high. He was seen in Raleigh on Sunday the 6th, and since at Mr. Thos [Thomas] Busbee's, nine miles south-east from Raleigh, where he is probably now lurking. He had on a homespun coat and pantaloons and blue jacket. The above reward will be given any one who will deliver him to the jailor of Wake.
JOHN PHILLIPS.


Source: The North Carolina Minerva and Raleigh Advertiser, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 12, 1808; Pg. 3