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PP-P.776.030
20 May 1776:21 (5/239 Postscript)
Eight Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber, on the
evening of the 5th instant, an English servant named John
Metford, about 15 years of age, of a fresh complexion, wears
his own hair, light coloured and short and often goes
without combing it; . . . Had on when he went away, a
scarlet coat with white metal buttons and a brown collar
such as fifers of the Philadelphia 2d battalion commonly
wear, . . . it is supposed his great fondness for fifing has
induced him to go off, having done so once before for which
he was forgiven, and once with his former master, and will
in all probability endeavour to get to some of the back or
lower counties, or Maryland, to engage himself in that way
as he has taken a fife with him; . . .
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