Runaway Connecticut

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Negro Man

RUN-away from the subscriber in Woodbury, a Negro Man, about 23 years of age, very black and trim built a small head and flat nose and pitted on the nose with the small pox; he is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high; took away with him a butternut…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: April 20, 1779
Location: Woodbury, CT

Benjamin Robertson and Abraham Baily

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED from Conductor Olmsted's company of Teamsters in Continental service, the 16th July last BENJAMIN ROBERTSON, formerly of East Haddam, of a middling statute, dark complexion, about 20 years of age. Also, ABRAHAM…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 24, 1779
Location: Hartford, CT

Abraham Ferris, Robert Dunkley, and William Sheene

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED from my company of Artificers in July last, Abraham Ferris, Robert Dunkley, and William Sheene; Ferris is a carpenter by trade, belonged to Stanford in Connecticut, about 45 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high;…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 28, 1779
Location: Middletown, CT

David Day, Jr. and Sumner Banks

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED from my Company of artificers, in July last, David Day, junr. Carpenter by trade, belongs to Killingley, state of Connecticut, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, short brown hair, grey eyes; also Sumner…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 28, 1779
Location: Middletown, CT

Negro Man

RUN away from the subscriber a Negro Man about 40 years of age, about 5 feet 4 inches high, the grizle of his nose eat out, and the top sunk in. Whoever will take up said run away and confine him so that his master can have him again, shall have one…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 5, 1779
Location: West Simsbury, CT

Michael Murrey and John Scovel

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. LAST night escaped from the subscribers with whom they were permitted to work in Hartford, MICHAEL MURREY and JOHN SCOVEL both prisoners of war. Said Murry is a short thick set fellow, about 5 feet 6 inches high, dark…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 18, 1780
Location: Hartford, CT

Alexander

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RUN away from the subscriber on the 18th of July, a negro man named Alexander, 36 years old, about six feet six inches high, speaks good English, in a high and polite stile. Had on when he went away, a light colour'd fleece jacket, striped shirt, and…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: July 27, 1780
Location: Woodbury, CT

Roger

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One hundred dollars reward, TO any person who will apprehend and secure, so that he may be brought to justice, a certain runaway from the laboratory near the corner Sixth and Chest-nut streets, which has long been under the direction of Mr. Jonathan…
Newspaper: New London Bee
Date: August 1, 1798
Location: New London, CT

Israel Stone

100 Dollars Reward. ESCAPED from the hospital of the state prison in New York, in the night of the 1st of Sept. Israel Stone, born at Litchfield, in the state of Connecticut - about 23 years of age, fair complexion, rather pale, pockmarked, has a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 17, 1798
Location: State Prison, NY

Luther Smith, George Wright, Amos Abbe, and Caesar Reynolds

100 Dollars Reward. BROKE the Hartford County Gaol, Connecticut, on the morning of the 7th instant, the following persons, confined therein for crime, who made their escape, viz. LUTHER SMITH, about 28 years old, 6 feet high, blue or grey eyes, brown…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 13, 1822
Location: Hartford, CT