"$50 Reward," Telegraph and Texas Register, April 8, 1840

Summary: An ad offering a reward for two runaways, a man and a little girl. Gave each slave's name, height, age, etc. Also noted the man had an injured right thumb. Offered fifty dollars for capturing both, twenty-five for each. Ominously warned that a white man might have helped them escape.

Absconded from my premises in Rutersville, on the 9th inst, a negro man named Bob, aged from 30 to 35 years, about five feet high, thin visage; his right thumb has been injured, and the nail nearly entirely wanting; wears a small bunch of hair on the top of his head as a cue tied with a bit of ribbon or string. Also, a girl accompanied this fellow, who is about 14 years of age, tolerably well grown, and rather slender built, she will call her name Pen or Penny.

I will give the above reward of fifty dollars in the promissory notes, to any person who will detain both of said negroes so that I get them again, or half that amount for either one of them. It is possible some white man is at the head of this affair, as several other negroes in this community absconded about the same time. CLASKY P. MORROW.

Rutersville, Jan 12 w3227 d261[sic]

Source Copy Consulted: "$50 Reward," Telegraph and Texas Register, April 8, 1840, p. 4