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PG-P.777.040
23 Jul 1777:12 (2526)
Twenty dollars reward. Stolen, on or about the night of the
first of this instant July, out of the nailing shop of the
subscribers, living in Middle-town, St. George's Hundred,
New-Castle county, in the Delaware State, a parcel of
nailing tools of different sorts and sizes, especially those
for making cast nails. Taken by a certain John Maxwell, a
nailor by trade about 5 feet 5 inches high, an Irishman
born, about 22 years of age, dark brown hair; had on, when
he went away, a regimental coat of the second battalion of
the Pennsylvanians, in which he says he was a drummer last
year on the Quebec expedition, a regimental hat, also an old
red jacket, one white shirt, old tow ditto, old shoes and
stockings, and a pair of buckskin breeches, almost new. . .
[3 lines, terms, signed] Thomas Witherspoon, Patrick
McGinnis.
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