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Printers take notice!!!
One hundred dollars reward.

Was stolen from the subscriber about the 4th
instant, by a certain George Gerrish, a black
full-blooded mare, 4 years old... Said Gerrish
is a native of Nova Scotia, he served an appren-
ticeship to a printer in Halifax, and has been
engaged in that business, in many printing-
offices on the continent, he is a well-looking
young man, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10
inches high, round shouldered, his head stoop-
ing, black hair, two scars above one of his eyes,
which are hazel coloured. It is supposed he is
gone toward Richmond, Kentuckv, or Boston...
The last time he came to my house, he told me
that he had been last in Baltimore, but was now
going into partnership with a Mr. Wilmer, at
Havre de Grace, [signed] Robert Harris...⁴

Gerrish, however, was safely ensconced at Reading,
for a time, at least. His name appeared later in the
columns of the Weekly Advertiser of Reading, rival of
the Schneider and Gerrish papers, where an anonymous
correspondent addressed a letter to "Mr. Arrogance,"
asking if he were

not the intimate acquaintance of George Gerrish,
who was formerly the partner of Schneider, and
who married an innocent young woman in this
place, and borrowed a horse of a worthy citizen
here, which it was proved he never meant to re-
turn, and on whose head a reward of 100 dollars
was offered for horsestealing in Maryland,⁵

Soon thereafter, Gerrish's name disappeared from Jacob
Sehneider's publications;⁶ and if he carried on an-

4 Maryland journal. June 19, 1797.

5 Weekly advertiser, Reading. October 16, 1798.

6 Brigham, C.S. Eibliography of American news-
papers, 1690-1820, Part XIV. Pennsylvania
(Pittsburg to York) p. 354.