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PC.768.160
28 Nov-5 Dec 1768:3953 (99)
Greenwich in Connecticut, Nov. 17, 1768. Five dollars
reward. Made his escape from the subscriber, on Monday
night, the 14th instant, from Mr. Butler's, at South-Amboy
ferry stage house, a prisoner for theft, who had some time
before been taken up, the stolen goods found upon him, and
confined in the Philadelphia gaol, on an advertisement,
wherein the person of the thief is thus described, viz--he
calls himself William Green, and gave the following account,
That he is an Englishman, a fuller by trade, sailed from
England in April last, arrived at Philadelphia, came from
thence, inquiring for employment, through New-Jersey and
New-York, from whence he went to Greenwich in Connecticut,
where he was hired by the subscriber for a month. He is a
slender, middle sized man . . . [4 lines, physical
description] He spends freely at a tavern, uses little or no
bad language, is much of a songster, and appears somewhat
genteel. . . [24 lines, clothing, details of escape, signed]
Joseph Galpin, John Green.
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