David Clark, Joseph Green, Jonathan Smith, Robert Dunkley, Peleg Burdick, and Abraham Ferris
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THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED some time past from Capt. William Sizer's company of Artificers, David Clark and Joseph Green, both inhabitants of Milford, carpenters by trade. Said Clark aged about 38 years, and Green 58. Also, Jonathan Smith, an inhabitant of Haddam, Joiner by trade, aged 21 years. Robert Dunkley, an inhabitant of New Hartford, aged 48 years, a Joiner by trade. Peleg Burdick, an inhabitant of Worthington, State of Massachusetts, aged 28 years, a carpenter by trade. Abraham Ferris, an inhabitant of Horseneck, a carpenter by trade, 39 years of age. Whoever will take up said deserters and return them to West Point, or confine them in any goal and give notice, shall have the above reward, or fifty dollars for either and necessary charges paid. LINUS HOPSON, Lieut. West Point, December 15, 1779.
Citation
Linus Hopson, advertisement for David Clark et al., Connecticut Courant, February 22, 1780, accessed June 8, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4668.