_The Maryland Gazette_, Feb. 27, 1755.
RAN away from Jonathan Sergeant, at Newark, in New-Jersey, A young negro
man, named Esop, of middle size, with round forehead, strait nose, and a
down guilty look; HE CAN WRITE, AND IT IS LIKELY HE MAY HAVE A COUNTERFEIT
PASS: Had with him a beaver hat, light grey linsey-wolsey jacket, two
trowsers, new pumps, and an old purple coloured waist coat. It is supposed
he went away in company with a white man, named John Smith, who is an old
lean, tall man, with a long face and nose, and strait brown hair; who had
on an old faded snuff-coloured coat. Whoever takes up and secures said man
and Negro, so that their master may have them again, shall have Forty
Shillings reward for each and all reasonable Charges, paid by