Benjamin Porter and Jesse Cable
Newspaper
Date
Location
Reward
Transcription
20 DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED from the rendezvous ar Hartford, on the 13th instant, Benjamin Porter and Jesse Cable, soldiers in the United States infantry. Porter is thirty-five years of age, five feet eight inches high, blue eyes, dark hair and dark complexion, born in Lebanon, (Conn.); wore and carried with him, a round hat, a regimental coat, a striped swansdown vest, one regimental vest, one pair of dark reimental overalls - the buttons were numbered for the 3d regiment. Cable is twenty-five years of age, five feet eleven inches high, blue eyes, black hair and dark complexion, born in Weston, Fairfield county, (Conn.); wore and carried with him a round hat, a short blue surtout, a regimental vest and a pair of dark regimental overalls - his buttons were also numbered for the 3d regiment; - he likewise took with him a Violin, on which he plays tolerably well. Whoever will apprehend and secure said deserters in any goal within the United States, or deliver them at any place of rendezvous within the United States, shall receive the above reward and all necessary charges paid - or Ten Dollars for either, with charges. JACOB KINGSBURY, Maj. 2d U. States Regiment Infantry, Commanding. Harford, April 20.
Citation
Jacob Kingsbury, advertisement for Benjamin Porter and Jesse Cable, Connecticut Courant, April 20, 1801, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4912.