Benjamin Taylor
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
Last night run away from the subscriber an apprentice boy, named Benjamin Taylor, about 19 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, by trade a shoemaker and tanner, has light colour'd hair, had on a brown cloth colour'd coat, and jacket a pair of buck skin breeches, a pair of blue duffle trowsers, took with him one suit of cloths more of a brownish colour, and sundry other articles of wearing apparel. Whoever shall return him shall have two dollars reward and charges paid by Alexander M'Niel. All masters of vessels are forbid carrying him off. Litchfield, Dec. 19, 1774.
Citation
Alexander M'Niel, advertisement for Benjamin Taylor, Connecticut Courant, January 2, 1775, accessed June 6, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4536.