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NYEP(D.749.041
23 Oct 1749:32 (231)
Run away the second of October instant, from John Groesbeek
of New-York, a Negro man named Harry, a lusty fellow, about
28 years of age, yellow complexion, upwards of 6 feet high,
is born at Albany talks good Dutch and English, understands
to play on the fiddle; he had on when he went away, an
ozenbrigs shirt, a striped red and brown homspun jacket, and
a bear-skin one over it, a striped worsted cap, small hatt,
cloth breeches, and a pair of ozenbrigs trowsers over it, a
pair of fine blue worsted stockings, new shoes, steel
buckles, one of his ancles bend, inwards from a cut thereon;
it is supposed he is gone to the West-Jersies: Whoever
takes up the said Negro, and secures him so that his master
may have him again, shall have forty shillings reward, and
reasonable charges paid, by [signed] John Groesbeek.
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