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One hundred dollars reward

for the apprehension of Becky, a girl, seventeen years old, tall and well proportioned, about five feet high, of dark gingerbread color, with one or two teeth on the left side of her lower , a very large mark of vaccination on the left . She was dressed in a spun cotton coat; stammers slightly when suddenly addressed. She went in a Hivanna river canal boat, and is supposed to be harbored with free negroes on the canal or in Richmond.

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