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[Wilson Gray]

>From a WANTED flyer for an English run-away slave:

"_Whoever_ fecures [the Black Boy, named Lewis, about 16 years old: he
fpeaks Englifh very well] and gives notice of, or fends him to [his owner]
the faid Dormer Sheppard, fhall have _their_ Charges paid, and a Guinea
reward."

The flyer is dated 13 December 1707.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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