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Worcester, July 30, 1776.

Agreeably to a Resolve of the Continental Congress, the Committee of the Town of Worcester having liberated Alexander Gardner and John Thornhill, two prisoners of war, that they might support themselves by their labour; and on the 28th day of July instant they went from this town together, and have not since returned. Gardner had on, when he went away, a red coat lappelled with buff, buttons marked 10; he has been a drummer in the Twenty-Third Regiment of Fusiliers. Thornhill has been a sailor, had on a sailor' s blue jacket, speaks something slow, pretty tall. Whoever will take up and return the said prisoners to the Committee of Safety, &c˙, for the Town of Worcester, shall receive four dollars reward, and all reasonable charges, or two dollars for either of them.

NATHAN BALDWIN, Chairman.