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| Keywords: Colonel Tye Runaway Ad.jpg Colonel Tye fighting for the Crown during the American Revolutionary War THREE POUNDS Reward RUN away from the fubfcriber living in Shrewfbury in the county of Monmouth New-Jerfey a NEGROE man named TITUS but may probably change his name; he is about 21 years of age not very black near 6 feet high; had on a grey homefpun coat brown breeches blue and white ftockings and took with him a wallet drawn up at one end with a ftring in which was a quantity of clothes Whoever takes up faid Negroe and fecures him in any goal or brings him to me fhall be entitled to the above reward of Three Pounds proc and all reafonable charges paid by Nov 8 1775 JOHN CORLIS With corrections for typography f replaced by s THREE POUNDS Reward RUN away from the subscriber living in Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth New-Jersey a NEGROE man named TITUS but may probably change his name; he is about 21 years of age not very black near 6 feet high; had on a grey homespun coat brown breeches blue and white stockings and took with him a wallet drawn up at one end with a string in which was a quantity of clothes Whoever takes up said Negroe and secures him in any goal or brings him to me fhall be entitled to the above reward of Three Pounds proc and all reasonable charges paid by Nov 8 1775 JOHN CORLIS 1775 PBS Africans in America Resource Bank http //www pbs org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h1b html John Corlis slave owner PD-old-100 PD-US Uploaded with UploadWizard People of the American Revolutionary War African American soldiers Fugitive slave advertisements 1775 advertisements in the United States | ||||
