One Cent Reward for a Runaway Apprentice Hair Dresser - Alecandria, Virgina June 2, 1814

One Cent Reward.

RANAWAY from the subscriber on

the 27th inst:

Thomas Williams,

An apprentice to the Hair Dressing business, about 17 years of age, stout and well made.  All persons are hereby forwarned [sic] against harboring or trustung him on my account. _ Whoever will return said boy to me at my Shop on Royal Street [Alexandria, Virginia], shall  receive the above reward but no charges will be paid.

                                                                                                         Thom. Shields.

May 31 [1]

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[1] Alexandria Gazette Commercial and Political; Date: 06-02-1814; Volume: XIV; Issue: 4170; Page: [1]; Location: Alexandria, Virginia.

Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, June 2, 2013.