Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Hardy county” in article pos=67 of The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...Ranaway, October 18 Joe a dark mulatto; 23 years old; six feet high weighs 180 pounds; well built, and very likely bushy head of hair, and heavy beard; can read and write, but writes badly; came from Hardy county , Va.; may have free paper.
I will give the above reward for his confinement in jail, so I get him. James I Cothran, Roxhoro, N. C. no 23--1m*
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