Whoever will apprehend him and deliver him to the Master of the Work-house, in Charleston, or to any of the gaolers in this State, shall be entitled to a Reward of Twenty Dollars, and all reasonable expenses.

All Masters of Vessels and others are forbid employing, harbouring or carrying him off, as on conviction they will be prosecuted to the extent of the law.

Apply to the Printers of the City Gazette.

  April 1, 1799.

  The City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, April 1, 1799.

CITY SHERIFF’S SALE

Will be sold before the Store of Messrs. Aerstein & Co., on Thursday next the 10th inst., at twelve o’clock, a valuable negro named WILL about 22 years of age; he is well adopted for a Waiting Man for a single gentleman who travels or as a Steward of a Ship of Packet.  HE SPEAKS FRENCH AND SPANISH, READS AND WRITES and never known to be guilty of any mean or bad tricks which blacks in common are addicted to, such as pilfering or drinking.  His deportment is agreeable and polite.  Seized by virtue of an execution for Drain Assessment and Arrearages of Taxes, and to be sold as the Property of Col. ALEXANDER MOULTRIE.

Condition, cash payable in dollars, at 4s 8d, the property not to be altered until the terms are complied with.[1]

ALSO WILL BE SOLD.—­

A few articles of Household Furniture as the property of the estate of James Paterson, deceased, for arrearages of State and City Taxes.  Condition, cash, purchasers to pay for Sheriff’s bills of sale.

  City Sheriff’s Office, Jan. 4. 
  J. H. STEVENS,
  City Sheriff.

  City Gazette & Daily Advertiser, Jan. 5, 1799.

      FOOTNOTE: 

      [1] This advertisement appears also under another heading.

TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD

For Jack who has again run-away.

The subscriber’s servant Jack, who calls himself John Leech, again absconded last night.  He is a short well made young Mulatto, probably about five feet five inches high, about twenty-five years of age, and plausible; he has a thick bushy head of hair, like a negro’s; thick lips, a film on his left eye, over which he sometimes wears a peace of green silk.  He belonged when he was a child, to the late Ephraim Mitchell, esq. deceased, and afterwards to Francis Bremar, esq. from whom the subscriber bought him.

He is well acquainted all over the state, having waited upon his former masters when traveling, and also upon the subscriber when he went on the Circuits.  HE CAN WRITE HIMSELF AND MAY FORGE A PASS OR CERTIFICATE OF FREEDOM.  He had on, when he went off, a pair of overalls, and waistcoat of servant’s cloth of a light grey mixed colour almost new, and carried several changes with him nearly of the same colour, and several coatees like them, with capes, cuffs and