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PG-P.751.017
9 May 1751:31 (1169)
Run away in July last, from Nicholas Everson, living in
East-New-Jersey, two miles from Perth-Amboy ferry, a mulatto
Negroe, named Tom, about 37 years of age, short, well-set,
thick lips, flat nose, black curled hair, and can play well
upon the fiddle: Had on when he went away, a red coloured
watch-coat, without a cape, a brown coloured leather jacket,
a hat, blue and white twisted yarn leggins; speaks good
English, and low Dutch, and is a good shoemaker; his said
master has been informed that he intends to cut his
waistcoat, to make him Indian stockings, and to cut off his
hair, and get a blanket, to pass for an Indian; that he
enquired for one John and Thomas Nutus, Indians at
Susquehanna, and about the Moravians, and the way there. . .
[3 lines, terms,] forty shillings reward, and reasonable
charges, paid by [signed] Nicholas Everson.
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