Imprint Record

Notice of Runaway Slave named Ceasar (May 1797).

• Imprint Number: 1797.023
• Title: 25 dollars reward. Ran-away from the subscriber's plantation in Montgomery county ... Negro man servant named Ceasar ... John Hook. Hall’s-ford, May 12th, 1797.
• Sequence Number: 23
• Year: 1797
• Place Issued: Lynchburg
• Issuing Press: John Davis
• Author: Hook, John (1746-1808).
• Notes: Evidently the oldest surviving imprint from the Davis press, antedating the initial number of his Lynchburg Weekly Museum by some three weeks.
  
  
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  • John Davis

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