| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| January 15, 1863 |
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| $90 Reward! |
| Runaway about three months ago
from the Alabama & Mississippi {Rivers} railroad,
the following named |
| Negroes! |
| TOM, around thirty-three years
old, very black, about five feet then inches high, weighs about one
hundred and sixty pounds, his front teeth very white and show very
plainly when talking. |
| DAMON, about six feet high,
very black, forty years old, and speaks very much like an African. |
| JERRY, about five feet two
inches high, aged about twenty two years, is of a brown color, very
quiet and has but little to say. |
| LITTLE ISOM, about five feet
four inches high and twenty years old. |
| BIG ISOM, six feet high,
weighs one hundred and seventy five pounds, and front teeth out. |
| ALLEN, five feet five or six
inches high, twenty-two years old and very black. |
| ELI, a yellow boy, wears a
mustache, twenty-five years old and weighs one hundred and sixty
pounds. |
| HENRY DAVIS, five feet five
inches high, weighs one hundred and thirty pounds and very black. |
| -----, twenty-six years old,
very black and weighs one hundred and forty pounds. |
| I will give ten dollars each
for either of the above named boys if lodged in jail so that I can get
them. |
| J. H. Riffle |
| Roadmaster A. & M. R. R. R. |
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