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Boston

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Run-away from the subscriber of Waterbury, on the 1st instant, and since on the 9th instant escaped from the subscriber after being taken at Lyme, a Negro man slave named BOSTON, about 35 years of age, being the Negro man that was formerly owned by…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: August 16, 1771
Location: Lyme, CT

Tom

Run away from me the subscriber, a negro man, named TOM, a little on the molatto colour, aged 19 years, speaks good English and low Dutch, has a blemish in one eye. Had on when he went away, a light blue coat, white Philadelphia buttons, and best of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 15, 1771
Location: Amenia, NY

John Brown, Thomas Martin, Edward Davis, and Mercy Burgy

BROKE out of the county goal in this town last night, a young man of about 20 years of age, well set, short of stature, pretty fair complexion, wears his own hair of a dark colour, calls himself by the name of John Brown, and has been twice crop'd…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: November 5, 1771
Location: Hartford, CT

Peter and Primus

New Haven, November 22d, 1771. Run away last evening from the subscriber two Negro Fellows, one named Peter, the other Primus. Peter is a stout fellow, of a yellow complexion, about thirty-nine years of age, bushy head of hair, took with him a suit…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: November 26, 1771
Location: New Haven, CT

Nathan Gambell

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Lebanon, 17th Nov. 1771. Ran-away from Amos Robinson, an Apprentice Boy named NATHAN GAMBELL, about Nineteen Years of Age, has short black curl'd Hair, took with him a clarrat colour'd Coat and Breeches, a pair of black Breeches, and strip'd Silk…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: December 27, 1771
Location: Lebanon, CT

John Smith, Obadiah Mathers, Jechaniah Holcomb, Jonas Case, John Swaney, and George Tryon

Hartford, January 27, 1772. Broke out of the County Goal in this town, the last evening, one JOHN SMITH, who came into this colony a few years since, supposed from the province of new-York, and has resided chiedly at Suffield, where he married a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 28, 1772
Location: Hartford, CT

John Brown and Isaac Buck

Made their escape from the County Goal in Litchfield on the night of the 25th of January 1772, the following persons, viz. the notorious John Brown, and Isaac Buck. Brown was committed for breaking open the dwelling house of the Rev Mr. Lee of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: February 4, 1772
Location: Litchfield, 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

Benjamin Willcox

RUN AWAY from me the subscriber the 15th of this Instant May, one Benjamin Willcox, a servant boy about 15 years old had on when he went away a blue coat; black with [...] coat, striped long trowsers, a felt hat, a [...] bushey head of hair, brownish…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 2, 1772
Location: Simsbury, CT

Guinea

Run-away from the subscriber at Litchfiled, a Negro man about 40 years old, Named Guinea, thick sett, of a middleing height, for four or five years past was owned by Moses Doolittle of Chester, has lived for some time at Middletown and is supposed to…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 9, 1772
Location: Litchfield, CT