Saturday Spotting - Mr. Nutter Ran Away

Published on the 16^th of August in 1825 in the American Watchman in Wilmington, DE

RAN AWAY

On Saturday the 16^th inst. from the subscriber, near Middletown, Del., a bright mulatto, named Philip Szansberry Nutter, about 18 or 19 years of age. He is about 5 feet, 8 inches high, delicately made, round shouldered, and pleasant with spoken to. Took with him, a black cloth coat, a seersucker do, a striped worsted waistcoat, a pair of tow linen trousers, a pair of blue domestic stripe do., domestic shirt, and black fur hat. I will give Twenty Dollars reward and pay reasonable charges if brought home; or Twenty Dollars if secured to that I get him.

Thomas S. Merritt.    

July 23, 1825.                                                                        67 – tf