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Fifty dollars reward

--I will pay the above reward for the apprehension and delivery, or confinement in jail, of my man George Rucker. who ran away in December last and was last heard of at the farm of Mr Morson, in Goochland, where his wife lives. George is well known in Fishmond and on the Canal, having been Captain of a freight boat for twenty years He about 50 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, ginger bread color, and has remarkably short hair, closely napt.

Clifford Cabell.
Greenway P. O. Nelson co. Va. mh 11--10t*

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