Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1781.01.06

PP-P.781.001
6 Jan 1781:33 (10/696)
Run away from the subscriber, in the morning of the 4th
instant, a Negro man named Sharp, about nineteen years of
age, five feet some inches high, 
. . . he frequently beat the drum last summer for the
militia
. . . [5 lines on reward terms]
[signed] John M'Cormick
in Race-Street between Third and Fourth-Streets.