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Description: Three Servants Named John SIMMS, Thomas HOWARD, and a Negro Named Jenny Run Away From Their Master, John HOWARD.
Date: October 28 1742Newspaper published in: Philadelphia, PA
Run away from the subscriber, living at Elk-Ridge in Anne-Arundel County, Maryland, the 26th of September, 1742, the following servants, viz. John SIMMS, a convict servant man well set, about 30 years of age, and is of a pale complexion; he is without his hair, and had on when he went away, a caster hat, a ruffled Holland shirt, a flower'd vest, a pair of new pumps, and blue ribb'd stockings. Also, Thomas HANDFIELD, a convict servant; he is a young raw youth, about 18 or 20 years of age, fresh coloured and somewhat pitted with the small pox, wears his own yellow curl'd hair,had on a castor hat with a gold button and loop, his other cloaths unknown. Likewise, a negro woman named Jenny, supposed to be dressed in man's cloaths; if so, she has on a felt hat, an oznabriggs jacket, a pair of check'd trowsers, and an old pair of mens pumps. If she is in a woman's apparel, she has on a country cloth habit, a hempen roll petticoat, she is a slim young wench, looks smooth, with large eyes. Whoever apprehends the said servants and brings them to the subscriber shall have ten pounds reward for the three, or three pounds for each for the men, besides what the law allows, and four pounds reward for the woman. John HOWARD.