Rogers
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN away from the subscriber on the night after the 22d day of July, a yoiung man, called his name ROGERS, about 5 feet 10 inches high, light colour'd hair, slow of speech; had a blue coat and vest check shirt, strip trowsers, a large pair of diamond silver shoe buckles, and an old fashioned large watch, and a large pack, with a pillow coat knapsack, with a rope tump line, and a great coat. Stole from the subscriber one white shirt, one check do. one pair blue broadcloth breeches, one pair of thread stockings, one apir striped long towsers. Whoever will take up said fellow and commit him to any goal so that the subscriber may have him, shall have 50 dollars reward and all necessary charges paid, by SETH GARY. Enfield, July 23, 1779.
Citation
Seth Gary, advertisement for Rogers, Connecticut Courant, August 17, 1779, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4653.