Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1777.04.16

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Index Entry Deserter, American drummer, named Gibson, George 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PG-P.777.014
16 Apr 1777:11 (2512)
Eighty-eight dollars reward.  Deserted from Captain James
Wilson's company, of the first Pennsylvania regiment, the
following soldiers, viz. . . George Gibson, a drummer, about
5 feet 8 inches high, light hair, and the same kind of
clothes as the above. . .
Henry Wilson, a fifer, a lad about 14 years of age, of a
fair complexion and light coloured hair, is a little pitted
with the small-pox, and had on a red jacket and buckskin
breeches. . . 
   Whoever takes up the said deserters, and secures them in
any of the goals of the United States, or marches them to
the regiment now stationed at Quibble-town, shall receive
the above reward . . . April 5, 1777.


Generic Title Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia 
Date 1777.04.16 
Publisher Hall and Sellers 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1777 
Bibliography B0037261
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