Joshua Deland
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN away from the subscriber in Colchester, Marlborough Society, on the evening of 29th of June last, an apprentice Boy named Joshua Deland aged 16 years, small of his age, light complexion, and much inclined to talk; carried with him a homemade London brown coat and woolen overhalls, one homemade cotton and linen coat, one Jane vest, both an orange colour, one striped linen vest homemade, two checked linen homemade shirts, one ruffled holland do. two pair of brown towcloth trowsers, three pair of homemade woolen stockings, one of worsted do. one felt hat something worn, and also an old great coat. Whoever will take up said boy and return him to me, or give information where he ma ybe found, shall be generously rewarded and no charges paid; all persons are forbid harboring or employing said Boy on penalty of law. BENJAMIN KATRANE. Marlborough, July 11, 1796.
Citation
Benjamin Katrane, advertisement for Joshua Deland, Connecticut Courant, July 25, 1796, accessed June 8, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4878.