Runaway Connecticut

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Mingo

Run away from the subscriber, a negro servant, named MINGO, who was brought from South Carolina, about nineteen years ago, about five feet three inches high, has a fever sore on his right leg which is much swollen, has left leg crooked and the ankle…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 5, 1830
Location: Torrington, CT

Orrin Waterman Johnson

Run away from the subscriber on the 14th inst an indented apprentice to the coopering business, by the name of Orrin Waterman Johnson, about 5 feet six inches high 19 years of age, of a sandy complexion, with a scar over his right eye occasioned by…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: November 6, 1805
Location: Torrington, CT

Mary Miller

Whereas Mary the wife of the subscriber has eloped from my bed and board. These are to warn all persons from harboring or trusting her on my account, for I will pay no debt of her contracting after this date. William Miller. Torrington, Feb. 12,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: February 28, 1791
Location: Torrington, CT

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

Newport, Sarah, Rufus, Israel, Gershom, Rhena, Chloe, and Amos

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Ran-away from their Master, Capt. Samuel Chapman, of Tolland, on the Night of the 9th Instant, a Negro Man Servant named NEWPORT, about 40 Years of Age, of middling Stature, well set, of a light swarthy Complexion, has left the Top of one or two of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: November 20, 1769
Location: Tolland, CT

Joseph Robbins

Run-away from his Master in Tolland, on the night following the 27th of August last, an apprentice boy named Joseph Robbins, about 17 years of age, light complexion, short brown hair, has a scar under his chin, easy to get aquainted, quarrelsome…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: September 3, 1774
Location: Tolland, CT

Wyllys Rogers

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NOTICE. WYLLYS ROGERS, a mulatto boy, about 14 years of age, being under the care of us the subscribers, having run away from Samuel Aborn's, the place provided for him in this town, we therefore forbid all persons harboring, trusting or employing…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 26, 1819
Location: Tolland, CT

Suseranna Stimson

Whereas my wife Suseranna has eloped from my bed and board without any just cause: These are therefore to forbid all persons trusting or harboring her on my account as I will pay no debts of her contracting after this date. Joshua Stimson. Tolland,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: April 26, 1802
Location: Tolland, CT

Israel and Joseph Robins

Ran-away from the subscriber Samuel Chapman of Tolland, in Hartford county, the night after the 28th of August last, a Molatto servant named ISRAEL, a strong well built fellow, about 18 years of age, something straitish hair for a Molatto, carried…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 12, 1774
Location: Tolland, CT

Uriah Cross

TEN DOLLARS REWARD. RUN AWAY the night after the first inst. from the subscriber in Toland, an apprentice boy named Uriah Cross, about 20 years of age, 5 feet and 4 inches high, thick set, wears his own dark colour'd hair, his left hand something…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: March 5, 1770
Location: Toland, CT