Truman Merrill
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN away from the subscriber the 24th of August, an apprentice Boy, named Truman Merrill, about 18 years of age, about five feet ten inches high, strait well built, short lightish curl'd hair, has work'd some at the clothiers trade, and likely will endeavour to get work at said business again. Whoever will take up said boy and return him to the subscriber, shall have One Shilling and Six-Pence reward. All persons are forbig hiring or harbouring said boy on penalty of the law. SAMUEL STANLEY. West-Hartford, September 3, 1784.
Citation
Samuel Stanley, advertisement for Truman Merrill, Connecticut Courant, September 7, 1784, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4729.