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$6 reward

--Runaway, on the 5th of August, my eg woman named Betty, about 28 years old 5 feet 4 inches high, black who was hired to Joseph Davis on broad street. She has a mark in consequence of a mustard plaster she had on, which place is darker. She has children in Cumberland county, where I bought her of Mr. J. M. Price. Her mother lives with in Augusta county. No doubt she to one of these places; or she may be I will give the above reward if deliver to me here, or if lodged in jail in the county of city.

Joseph Stern.

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