Run away from the subscriber the 17th instant, a Negro Wench named Silva, about 24 years of age, smallish size, thick and well made, had on and took with her a brown skirt and striped short gown. Whoever will take up and secure said wench and give information to the subscriber, shall have Five dollars reward and charges paid by, Elijah Hensdale Farmington, June 19, 1784  NB Said Wench before she runaway threw a stone and fractured the skull of her master and otherwise much wounded him.