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NECH-C.776.006
11-18 Jan 1776:31 (8/390)
Fifteen dollars reward. Run away from Col. Jonathan Moulton
of Hampton in the colony of New Hampshire, in October last,
a Negro boy named Cato, about 18 years old, and about 5 feet
and an half high, or something more; a more likely, strait
limb'd, well built and active a boy is seldom to be seen,
and plays well on a fife; he is very apt to scowl, or knit
his brows, and has had the small-pox by inoculation, which
he shows but little in his face, but the place on his arm
where he was inoculated is plain to be discovered. Since he
ran away he was taken up at Durham, and in conveying him to
his masters he made his escape; since that he was at
headquarters, and offered to inlist, but not meeting with
success, he went from thence to Lexington, where he offered
his service to Mr. John Buckman, innholder in that town, and
called himself Elijah Bartlett, and said that he was free
born; . . . [21 more lines on sightings, clothes,
intentions, born in New York; signed] Jona. Moulton.
Hampton, January 1, 1776
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