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Virginia Gazette
(Purdie & Dixon), Williamsburg ,
June 20, 1766.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Southampton, on the 31st of March last, an apprentice boy named RAINES TUCKER, by trade a carpenter, about 17 years of age. All persons are forewarned from harboring or entertaining the said apprentice; if it can be made appear they do, they may depend upon being prosecuted.
ROBERT JONES.
Reprint: not in Windley
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