Ten Dollars Reward.
ABSCONDED from the
household of the President of the United States, on Saturday afternoon, ONEY
JUDGE, a light Mulatto girl, much freckled, with very black eyes, and bushy
black hair—She is of middle stature, but slender and delicately made, about 20
years of age. She has many changes of very good clothes of all sorts, but they
are not sufficiently recollected to describe.
As there was no suspicion of her going off,
and it happened without the least provocation, it is not easy to conjecture
whither she has gone—or fully, what her design is; but as she may attempt to
escape by water, all masters of vessels and others are cautioned against receiving
her on board, altho’ she may, and probably will endeavour to pass for a free
woman, and it is said has, wherewithal to pay her passage.
Ten dollars will be
paid to any person, (white or black) who will bring her home, if taken in the city,
or on board any vessel in the harbor; and a further reasonable sum if
apprehended and brought home , from a
greater distance, and in proportion to the distance.
SOURCE: Erica Armstrong
Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washington’s
Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge, p. 99 which contains a
photograph of the add above, originally published in Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
May 25, 1796.
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