Four thousand five hundred dollars reward.
--I will pay four thousand five hundred dollars for the apprehension and delivery to me in Richmond, or for securing them so that I get them, the following Slaves, to wit: Jordan, a yellow man, about twenty-seven years old, a tolerable carpenter and blacksmith. --Was raised near Christiansburg, Virginia. Lewis, a black man, thirty years old; purchased of T. L. Drewney or Broddie, near Hendersonville, North Carolina. Joshua, black, about twenty-eight years old; raised by Walter Coles, of Pittsylvania county; has rather a down look, and is very stout. Jack, about eighteen years old, black and slim; bought of P. J. Stern, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Jim, black, about twenty-one or twenty-two years old; raised in Maryland; is tall and very likely. William, a brown-skin boy, about twenty or twenty-two years old; raised in or near this city; once owned by F. J. Sampson, an agent at the Richmond and Danville depot. Elijah, of brown complexion, about thirty-five years old; raised near Charlottesville, and is a No. 1 cook. Both of his legs were swollen and sore at the time he left. Sally, a mulatto girl, about twenty-five years old; raised in Loudoun county; was purchased of N. M. Lee; tall and slender, with long black hair. Harriet, fifteen or sixteen-years old, brown skin, with a bushy head of hair. They left my farm, in Lunenburg, about the last of June, with the Wilson raiding party. I will pay the above reward for all of them, or five hundred dollars for any one of them. E. H. Stokes. au 5--tw*
