Gibbens Wentworth
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN away from the subscriber in Canaan upon the 23rd day of March last, an apprentice boy named Gibbens Wentworth, 19 years of age of a middling stature, goes a little slooping forward, of a brown gloomy countenance, brown hair and eyes, a considerable scar on one foot near by the joint where the great toe joins on the foot - Had on a short fly coat of home made cloth mill colour black horn buttons check'd woolen shirt old leather breeches good castor hat had several pair of pewter buttons made in imitation of silver. Whoever will take up said apprentice and return hum to his master or secure him in any of his majesty's goals and give notice thereof so that his master may have him again shall have Five Dollars reward and necessary charges paid, by JOHN WATSON. Canaan May 4th 1774.
Citation
John Watson, advertisement for Gibbens Wentworth, Connecticut Courant, May 17, 1774, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4516.