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PG-P.762.024
29 Apr 1762:41 (1740)
New-York, Printing-Office, In Beaver-Street, April 17, 1762.
Run away, on Monday the 12th instant, from the subscriber, a
mulattoe servant man, named Charles, and known by the name
of Charles Roberts, or German. He is a likely well set
fellow, 28 or 30 years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high,
and has had the small-pox. He has a variety of clothes,
some of them very good, affects to dress very neat and
genteel, and generally wears a wig. He took with him . . .
[6 lines, clothing,] a blue great coat, and a fiddle. His
behaviour is excessively complaisant, obsequious and
insinuating; he speaks good English, smoothly and plausibly,
and generally with a cringe and a smile; he is extremely
artful, and ready at inventing specious pretences to conceal
villainous actions or designs. He plays on the fiddle, can
read and write tolerably well, and understands a little of
arithmetick and accounts. . . [36 lines, signed] John Holt.
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