on the back part of his head — Had on and took with him, a dark brown cloth coat, swansdown jacket, ribbed velvet pantaloons, and other clothes not known.Whoever takes up and secures said runaway, so that the subscriber gets him, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges paid if brought home.GABRIEL HIESTER.Berne township, Berks county,June 21, 1806." Political and military career A delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention on July 15, 1776 and an American Revolutionary War Patriot who served as a major with the Pennsylvania Militia from 1776-1777, Hiester spent the majority of his adult life in public service. On April 24, 1778, he was appointed as a Justice in the Court of Common Pleas. He then served as a member of Pennsylvania's unicameral Assembly in 1782 and from 1787 to 1789. A delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1790, he was subsequently elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, serving from 1791 to 1796 and, again in the House, from 1802 to 1804 before being elected to the Pennsylvania Senate, a seat he held from 1804 to 1812. Death Hiester died on his family's farm in Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania on September 1, 1824. He was seventy-two years old. References 1749 births 1824 deaths Hiester family Pennsylvania militiamen in the American Revolution Pennsylvania state senators People from Berks County, Pennsylvania People of colonial Pennsylvania