run away about the Beginning of September, and had a
homespun Shirt and a dark coloured Drugget Coat. We have
been informed, that he intended to get into Indian-habit.
Others tell, that he has said he would go towards New London
and Rhode-Island, and so to Sea.

Whoever can take up the said Indian Man, and secure him, and
give Notice to his Master so that he can be had again shall
have Three Pounds Reward, besides reasonable Charges.

Whether Dick was ever caught may never be known, for he seems to have made
no deep impression on history, though his "smiling Countenance" is here
immortalized.

Another Indian receives mention for another reason in the issue for
September 2, 1723, the item coming from Boston:

On Monday Night last at Judge Sewall's, and the Night
following at Judge Dudley's, was entertained one of the
oldest Indians in New-England; John Quittamog, living in the
Nipmug Countrey, near Woodstock. He is reckoned to be above
One Hundred and Twelve Years old. The English Inhabitants of
Woodstock remember him as a very old Man for near Forty
Years past, and that he has all along affirmed and which he
still affirms, that he was at Boston when the English first
arrived; and when there was but One Cellar in the Place, and
that near the Common, and then brought down a Bushel and a
half of Corn upon his Back. He says that the Massachusetts
Indians sent up word to the Nipmugs, that if they had any
Corn to spare the English wanted it, and it would be worth
their while to bring some of it down. He is now in good
Health, and has his Understanding and Memory very entire,
considering his great Age, and is capable of Traveling on
Foot Ten Miles in a Day.

The year 1723 seems nearly as far back to us as the year in which the
English first settled on Boston Harbor. But Judge Sewall and Judge Dudley
and their friends considered John Quittamog as interesting as we should
consider a man, still living, who had witnessed the duel between Alexander
Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

The genial "neighborhood note" style of journalism is in evidence in this
item from Boston in the issue for November 20, 1721:

We hear from Amesbury, That the generous and charitable
Captain of that Place, Lately warned his Company to appear
at the Place of Parade, well armed with their Axes instead
of their Firelocks; after which he marched