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Stop the Runaways--$200 reward. The following negro men left the Tredegar Iron Works on Saturday last. We will pay a reward of two hundred dollars for their apprehension and delivery thus in this city, or in any jail where we can get them; or in the same proportion for the arrest of either of them: Fleming has a dark skin, about 6 feet 8 inches high, has a slight impediment in his speech, and has a wife living on the Brook turnpike. Jim Lightfoot, has a very dark skin, good teeth, about 5 feet 4 inches high, has a wife in Hanover county at Dr. Gaines's. George Washington, has a brown skin, downcast look when questioned, about 6 feet 6 inches high. Cambridge has not a very healthy appearance, brown skin, 5 feet 8 inches high, has a wife near the Second African Church. Widdis Dickenson, has a dark skin, large mouth and eyes, speaks slowly, about 6 feet high, can read and write, good teeth, and has a wife in the city. my 18--1w J. R. Anderson & Co.
Ranaway --From me, on the 5th of April inst, my man Addison. He is about 26 years old, black, blind in one eye, full six feet high. I think he is about some of the camps or hospitals, as a cook. Any one lodging him in jail, or giving me any information so that I get him, shall be liberally rewarded. My address is Rockwell, Hanover county, Va. my 13--3*, Hos. J. Puryear.
$20 reward. --Ranaway, from John Quarles's brickyard, in the city of Richmond, where he was hired for the present year, on or about the 15th of April, a negro boy named Humphrey. He is about 20 years old, well built, quite dark and full featured, with a small scar on one of his cheeks; no other scar or mark recollected. He generally looks down when spoken to. The last time he was seen he was on the York River cars, supposed to be on his way to Yorktown or some other place on the peninsula. He may have passed himself off as a free negro and hired himself to some company, as a good many soldiers were on the cars the day he was seen on them. The above reward will be paid it delivered to Miles C. Eggleston, in the city of Richmond, or to me, in the county of Hanover, near Old Church Post-Office. my 9--5t* Wm. Parsley.