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MG-A(G.781.003
15 Feb 1781:22 (1779)
Five Hundred Continental Dollars Reward. Near South-River
Ferry, Anne-Arundel County, Feb. 7, 1781. On Wednesday
morning, near the break of day, were stolen out of the
subscriber's house, one fiddle, one pair of new osnabrig
trousers, one pair of cotton stocking, one striped lawn
apron, and one coarse fan-tail hat. The same thief took a
curb bridle out of my kitchen, and went to the quarter of
Mr. Charles Steuart, son of Dr. George Steuart, which
plantation joins mine, and took out of his stable a dark
iron-gray gelding. . . [5 lines]
The above articles were stolen by a lad named Thomas
Hammond, about 16 or 17 years of age, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches
high, brown hair, thin long visage, speaks slow and rather
foolish: had on a black and white country cloth waistcoat
and breeches, kersey wove, an osnabrig shirt, and it is
likely he may have the trousers and stockings on, as he has
no stockings but them, he had on likewise a new pair of
black leather shoes. The above named Thomas Hammond said he
lived three years with Major Henry Ridgely on Elk-Ridge, and
after that with Captain Thomas Richardson of Prince-George's
County, and from thence was brought down to Annapolis to
take the place of a soldier that had a sore leg, but the
Colonel would not pass him on account of his being knock-
kneed; this is what he told me at the time I hired him.
This father is a white man and his mother a mulatto, who
lives at Linganore, which place it is likely he will go to.
Whoever stops and secures the horse and other articles
aforesaid, so that the owners may get them again, shall
receive the above reward, and so in proportion for any part
thereof, and a handsome reward for securing the thief, so
that he may be brought to justice, paid by [signed] James
Steuart, Jacob Lusby.
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