$1000 REWARD
For NED. $500 will be given on his committal to any jail so that I can get him, and for any person, white or black, who may have stolen, employed, or harbored said negro, on their conviction $500 more will be paid. Ned ranaway from my plantation in Yazoo county, Mississippi, on 1st June 1859 and has been seen about Memphis in the last three or four months. He is black, twenty-four years old; said in Memphis he belonged to a man named Brown or Brooster in Mississippi; about five feet eleven inches high; fine teeth, which he shows when he smiles; high forehead; somewhat round-shouldered and knock-kneed; weighs commonly one hundred and sixty pounds; hair rather long for a negro of his complexion, and usually platted [plaited]; dull look; slow of speech; well disposed; silent, rarely saying anything except in reply, when he is very apt to grin, but seldom or never laughs.
WM. BATTAILE
Yazoo City, Mississippi