Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1776.05.13

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Index Entry Fife, played by runaway servant named Metford, John 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PP-P.776.028
13 May 1776:11 (5/238 Postscript)
Eight Dollars Reward.  Ran away from the subscriber, on the
evening of the 5th instant, an English servant named John
Metford, about 15 years of age, of a fresh complexion, wears
his own hair, light coloured and short and often goes
without combing it; . . . Had on when he went away, a
scarlet coat with white metal buttons and a brown collar
such as fifers of the Philadelphia 2d battalion commonly
wear, . . . it is supposed his great fondness for fifing has
induced him to go off, having done so once before for which
he was forgiven, and once with his former master, and will
in all probability endeavour to get to some of the back or
lower counties, or Maryland, to engage himself in that way
as he has taken a fife with him; . . . 


Generic Title Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia 
Date 1776.05.13 
Publisher Dunlap, John 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1776 
Bibliography B0040231
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