Army deserter (1804)

Post date: Feb 19, 2012 8:22:41 PM

Extract from Kentish Gazette, 3 April 1804:

Five Guineas Reward and all reasonable Expences, To any person who shall apprehend John Taylor who has absconded from the parish of Wateringury, in consequence of having been chosen by ballot to serve in the old West-Kent Regiment of Militia.—He is about five feet six inches high, between thirty and forty years of age, dark complexion, trade shoemaker; had on, when he went away, a brown coat. N. B. supposed that he is a native of East-Kent.

T. CROLE. Overseer of Wateringbury