RUNAWAY
FROM the Subscriber, in the City of Raleigh, about ten days since, a negro boy, about 35 years of age, named Sterling. Said negro is about 5 feet 10 inches high, copper colored, closely built, very shrewd and intelligent, and formerly belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, of Wake Forest
A reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for his delivery to me, or for his confinement in any Jail, so that I get him again.
C.W. PHILLIPS.
Source: Raleigh Register and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 10, 1839; Pg. 2
