Philadelphia, March 11, 1777.
Deserted from the armed schooner Delaware, belonging to this state, John Beard, born in Ireland, twenty-five years of age, five feet three inches high, sandy complexion, short brown hair, light coloured long clothes, leather breeches, and his face scratched in several places. Likewise one Barnet Williams, born in Ireland, about five feet five inches high, thirty-two years of age, sandy complexion, pitted with the smallpox, and has a cast in his left eye. He had on, when he went away, a swanskin jacket and trousers, and a white hat flapped. Whoever apprehends said deserters, so that they may be returned on board said schooner, shall have Eight Dollars reward, or Four Dollars for either.