$100 REWARD!--My negro man Richard has been missing since Sunday
night, March 22d. I will give $100 to any one who will secure
him or deliver him to me. Richard is thirty years old, but looks
older; very short legs, dark, but rather bright color, broad
cheek bones, a respectful and serious manner, generally looks
away when spoken to, small moustache and beard (but he may have
them off). He is a remarkably intelligent man, and can turn his
hand to anything. He took with him a bag made of Brussels
carpet, with my name written in large, rough letters on the
bottom, and a good stock of coarse and fine clothes, among them
a navy cap and a low-crowned hat. He has been seen about New
Kent C.H., and on the Pamunky river, and is no doubt trying to
get off in some vessel bound North.
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April 18th, 1857.
J.W. RANDOLPH, Richmond, Va.
Even at this late date, it may perhaps afford Mr. R. a degree of
satisfaction to know what became of Richard; but if this should
not be the case, Richard's children, or mother, or father, if
they are living, may possibly see these pages, and thereby be
made glad by learning of Richard's wisdom as a traveler, in the
terrible days of slave-hunting.
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