Runaway Connecticut

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Joseph Heday, Fortune, Venture, and Isaac

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RUN away from George Mumford, of Fisher's Island, the 27th Instant, four Men Servants, a white Man and three Negroes, who hath taken a large two-Mast Boat, with a square Stern, and a large white Pine Canoe; the Boat's Timbers are chiefly red Cedar.…
Newspaper: New York Gazette
Date: April 1, 1754
Location: Fishers Island, NY

Fortune

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These are to inform the public, that whereas a transient Negro man, who calls his name Fortune, to apperance about 50 years of age, of a middling stature, who came to Torrington on the 18th day of January last, and taken in by Mr. Aaron Austin of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: March 3, 1772
Location: Torrington, CT

Fortune

Fifteen Dollars Reward. RUN-AWAY from the subscriber on the night of the 27th instant, a Negro Man named FORTUNE, a stout well built fellow, about 26 years old, speaks good English, and is supposed to have pushed for Boston --- Any person that shall…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 29, 1784
Location: Hartford, CT