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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 11-27-2008 07:27 PM
  
Having settled the turkey snugly in the oven to cook, I ran across an interesting advertisement in the 24 Apr 1780 issue of the Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer: Runaway from the subscriber, on the evening of the 23rd instant, an apprentice boy, named Paul Sayre, a native of Long Island, by trade a goldsmith, about nineteen years of age, about five feet, seven or eight inches high, a thick set fellow, flat nose, light eyes, thick lips, somewhat pitted with small pox, has short, straight dark hair. Had on and carried with him a broadcloth blue coat, jacket and breeches, a light-brown short coat, with open sleeves, a jacket about the same colour, a blue great coat, a pair of brown broadcloth breeches, a large castor hat almost new, two pair of shoes, a pair of open work silver shoe buckles and sundry other articles of clothing. Whoever will take up said apprentice, and return him to his master, or confine him so that he shall get him again, shall have One Hundred Dollars Continental Money Reward and all necessary charges paid by James Tiley. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 11-28-2008 10:32 AM
What an interesting advertisement. Young Paul must have been quite an asset for his master to have paid for the advertisement and offer 100 Continental dollars even with the runaway inflation that was occuring at that time. The description of his Paul's wardrobe, accouterments and physical makeup is a vivid picture in its own right. The castor hat struck my curiosity, and the best I could do with finding a description is a comparison between felt and castor. Felt is smooth and castor has a nap. Castor is apparently derived from the word for rabbit or beaver. IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 11-28-2008 03:19 PM
"Castor" is the Spanish word for beaver. I suspect it may have been a term used for the beaver felt hat. Fred IP: Logged |
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