Jack

STOP THIEF. STOLEN from the subscriber Forty Dollars, on the 20th inst. by his servant, a yellowish Negro, named Jack, who speaks French, Spanish, and broken English; a likely short thick sett fellow, about 19 years old; had on when he went away, a narrow striped blue and white cotton and linen outside Jacket, a spotted cotton under Vest, with small flat white metal buttons, a white Shirt and Nankeen Overalls, with false strait hair joined to his crooked hair, cued up with a black ribbon, and is fond of powder; a segar-maker by trade; he was discovered lastly in New-Hartford woods, with some stolen provisions, one cheese, two loaves of bread, some codfish and tobacco, with a cudgel and knife, enquiring the way to Boston. Whoever will take up said thief and deliver him to the subscriber, at the house of Charles Churchill, Esq. at Wethersfield, shall be entitled to Twenty Dollars reward for their trouble. CHARLES CHURCHHILL, jun. Wethersfield, June 28, 1794. N.B. The above mentioned Negro is a cunning, wicked, blood-thirsty fellow, who drawed his knife and made several strokes on a gentleman who endeavored to persuade him back to his master three days before his departure, in the bounds of Farmington; and if any negro thiefs friends who incline to harbor negro thief, and not willing to have him punished for his thefts, make accept of this plunder and their future judgement for a reward of their trouble of nursing them in their own houses; and others whose principles are not quite so erroneous may commit him to goal if they please until our wise legislature thinks proper to free him with the rest of the black thieves, when said robbers can be better enabled and have more power to cut all the throats of the white people, which would shortly be the consequence, as hath been the case in the French islands, where thousands of white people have been cruelly murdered by the same act of liberality.