Runaway Connecticut

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Jack

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RUN AWAY from Moses Cooper of Gloucester, in the county of Providence, on the 2nd of October, in the Evening, a Negro Man, named Jack, about 26 Years of Age, of a small Stature, is of the Pawpaw Tribe, his Teeth filed sharp, has a Scar on the right…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: December 9, 1763
Location: Gloucester, RI

Charles

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TWENTY DOLLARS Reward. RAN-AWAY from Col. Israel Putnam, on the Evening of the 18th of August Instant, a Spanish Indian Servant, named CHARLES, about 27 Years of Age, about five Feet ten Inches high, has long straight black Hair, small Eyes, high…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: August 24, 1764
Location: Pomfret, CT

Bond

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TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUNAWAY from the subscriber, of Canaan, in Litchfield County a Negro man named BOND, about 27 Years old, six Feet high, well sett, one of his upper Fore Teeth broke out, this Country born stutters a little, had a Fiddle with…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 17, 1774
Location: Canaan, CT

Jude

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Run-away from the subscriber of Hartford, West-Division, on the night following 6th instant, a Molatto servant man named JUDE about 21 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches high, had on a claret colour'd coat and waistcoat, and a light colour'd waistcoat,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 9, 1774
Location: Hartford, CT

Elizabeth Howd

Whereas my wife Elizabeth, hath eloped from me, and is gone off with another man, and had robb'd me of all my household furniture, together with several notes of hand, and other papers of consequence. These are therefore to forewarn all persons not…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 30, 1775
Location: Farmington, CT

Thomas Clark

DESERTED from the service of the Colony of Connecticut, on the 8th of June instant, from Sheffield, a soldier named Thomas Clark, belonging to the 7th company in the 6th regiment---he is of a middling statute, light complexion, pitted with the small…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 26, 1775
Location: Sheffield, MA

Benjamin Bingham and Ozias Palmer

TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. Run away from the subscriber, on the 23d of Feb. last, Benjamin Bingham, about 20 years old, by trade a leather dresser; also Ozias Palmer, an apprentice to the hatters business, about 18 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high;…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: April 29, 1776
Location: Suffield, CT

Sy

(Twenty Dollars Reward) RUN AWAY from the subscriber, a Mustee Feltow named SY, about 5 Feet 5 Inches high, about 25 years of age, has short curl'd Hair nearly resembling a Negroes, well built, had on when he went off, a thick Jacket of a mix'd…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 17, 1776
Location: New London, CT

Dick

TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUN AWAY from the subscriber the 5th of September last, a Negro man named DICK, about 22 years old, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, a large scar on one of his feet - Had on when he went away, a home made coat of a redish…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 27, 1777
Location: Middletown, CT

Ezra Prindle, Stephen Hag, Samuel Sturdivant, and William Jemmerson

DESERTED from Capt. Beardslee's company in Col. Swifts regiment, on or about the 25th of March, one Ezra Prindle, late of Woodbury, about 40 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, dark Brown hair, grey eyes, some grey hairs, pitted with the small pox,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 12, 1777
Location: New Fairfield, CT