George Norton

DESERTED from my company, in Col. Shepard's regiment, in the continental army, one George Norton, a soldier, about twenty years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, sandy hair, light complexion, grey eyes, something pitted with the small pox, says he was born in Pennsylvania, very apt to get intoxicated with strong liquor, had on an old blue coat with [...] or white facings, other cloaths not known, talks of his pen. Whoever will take up said deserter and return him to his regiment, at Peck Kill, or to Ensign Samuel Chapin, at Westfield, in the State of Massachusetts Bay, or confine him in any of the goals in the thirteen United States; and send word to Col. Shepard, or the subscriber, shall have five dollars reward and all necessary charges paid, by JOB ALVARD, Capt. Westfield, March 30, 1777.