Pittsburgh Gazette Abstracts 1797-1803...
1798:$20 Reward. Ranaway from the subscriber, about the 14th day of July last, a Negro Man named NICHOLAS, about 5'8" or 9" high, 25 years of age, has remarkable large ears, a small scar on one of his eyes, occasioned by the stroke of a stick, and a large scar on one of his knees occasioned by fire; had on and took with him a leather hunting shirt or brock, and coarse shirt and trowsers. The above reward will be given to any person who will secure the said Negro in any jail, and all reasonable charges if brought home. /s/Charles PRATHER, Charles Town, Brooke Co., Virginia, Oct. 15.