TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN AWAY on the 21st. inst. a negro fellow named BRUTUS about twenty three or four years of age, about six feet high, slim built, has a bad sore on one his ancles[sic], and speaks very broken english[sic].--It is supposed he will endeavour to get to Greensville where he has a wife, or to Beaufort, Washington, or Wilmington, where he may try to make his escape, as he has been brought up to the sea.
I will give the above reward of TEN DOLLARS for him if delivered to me or secured in any Jail so that I get him, and all reasonable charges paid.
All persons are forwarned from harboring, employing or carrying him out of the State, under the penalty of the law.
George Reid.
Newbern, September, 27, 1817.
