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NYG(W.760.038
15 Sep 1760:42 (84)
Twenty Pounds Reward, run away the 28th of July last, from
the subscriber, living in Alexandria, Fairfax County,
Virginia, a convict servant man, named John Murphy, born in
Ireland, about 28 years old, by trade a joiner, a low well
set fellow, about 5 feet 4 inches high, struts in his walk,
of a pale complexion, large black beard and eye brown, wide
mouth, and pleasant countenance, sings extraordinary well,
having followed it in the play-houses, London, talks proper
English, and that in a polite manner.
His apparel not all known by me, but had a fine almost new
hat, good wig, and linnen, both fine and coarse, two brown
cloth jackets, with and without sleeves, new black knit
breeches, also good buckskin ditto, fine white cotton
stockings, and others, brass buckles, and good shoes. I
believe he has a musical grammar, the owners name wrote in
it, Richard Rigg: Likewise I am inform'd had a quantity of
dollars, and likely to be base metal, as he, it seems, is
experiences in coining. Its imagined he has forg'd a pass,
and likely deny his name, trade, and place of nativity.
whoever secures the said convict in any goal, so that his
master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and
if brought home, all reasonable charges, paid by [signed]
John Patterson.
N.B. All masters of vessels are forbid to take him off
their peril.
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