The Adams Centinel, Gettysburg, PA
May 20, 1801[1]
Eight Dollar Reward
Ran away from the subscriber on Sunday, the 17th inst., a German indented servant man, named John Godfrey Daniel Fidler, by trade a shoemaker, about thirty-two years of age, five feet eight or nine inches high; he is stout made and has short black hair.
Had on a lead colored homemade thick cloth coat, brown thick cloth pantaloons, a white dimity waistcoat, and half boots. It is expected he is making towards Philadelphia. Whoever takes up said Servant and secures him in any jail so that his Master gets him again, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable expenses if brought by me.
Robert Wray
Notes
1. According to most historians indentured servitude of whites ended in 1776. The Maryland Archives do not extend beyond this date.
