Stolen or Runaway.
FROM the subscriber on the 25th day of April last, a Negro boy about 12 or 15 years old, of a dark complexion, by the name of LEWIS, very low and chunkey [sic], talks very fine, has a large mouth and thick lips, and his back is pretty well marked with the whip, he understands dutch pretty well and can talk some words, he was brought from Virginia by William Jarvis of Rowan; he had on partly a new tow shirt filled in with cotton, and old pair of two pantaloons and an old woollen twilled short coat; also a small brimmed wool hat about half worn, it is also supposed that he took with him a very small double bladed penknife. If he is stolen I will give fifty dollars for apprehending said boy and the thief, and if his a runaway I will give five dollars to any person that will deliver said boy to me or confine him in jail so that I get him again.
JOHN FRALEY.
Rowan county, March 1st, 1816.
N.B. I will give twenty dollars to any person that will prove the harborage of said boy on any white person.
