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PJ.780.002
19 Jan 1780:32 (1323)
Philadelphia, January 12, 1780. Deserted from Captain
Nathan Lamm's company, of the Third Virginia Regiment,
commanded by Col. Nathaniel Gist, the following soldiers,
viz. . . [10 lines describing 4 men]
Caesar Black, Negro drummer, 35 years of age, 5 feet 7
inches high, well made, a shoemaker by trade, and has been
employed inthe public manufactury as an artificer in this
city, making cartridge boxes for eighteen months past, and
has been lately detected with a forged discharge.
One hundred dollars reward for each of the above
deserters, if confined in any jail, and notice given of them
to the Town-Major, or the subscriber. [signed] Charles
Jones, Lieutenant.
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