Runaway Connecticut

Search using this query type:



Advanced Search

Browse (858 total)

John Strong

SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away from Elisha Hale, Constable, on the 2d instant, JOHN STRONG, under an arrest for passing counterfeit eighty dollar bills, continental currency of the emission of January 1779; is a thick set fellow, has short…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 18, 1780
Location: Glastenbury, CT

Bill

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away from the subscriber, on Wenesday the 5th instant, a likely Negro Man, named Bill, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, plays well on the flute and fife; had on a short green coat with a red cape,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 18, 1780
Location: Hartford, CT

Alexander

07-27-1780.gif
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

Lazarus Parmer and Jacob Cowder

DESERTED from Capt. Mills' Company, Col. Beebe's Regiment of State Troops, two Soldiers, viz. Lazarus parmer of Winchester, and Jacob Cowder of Barkhemstead. Whoever will take up said deserters and return them to the company and regiment, shall have…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 1, 1780
Location: Not Specified

Gideon Owen

RUN-away from the subscriber on the 18th of June last, a servant Bpy, about 15 years of age, named Gideon Owen, of a light complection and light hair, a guilty fox eye; had on when he went away, a light brown coat and vest, linen trowsers and a straw…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 8, 1780
Location: Canaan, CT

Jack

03-15-1781.gif
RUN away from the subscriber, of Stratford, a NEGRO Man, named JACK, a short thick set fellow much pock broken, with a small spot bald on the crown of his head, had on when he ran away, a Kersey great coat and a strait bodied coat of the same.…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: March 15, 1781
Location: Stratford, CT

Henry Smith, Samuel Sherman, and Ithamer Granger

DESERTED from the subscriber, HENRY SMITH, SAMUEL SHERMAN AND ITHAMER GRANGER, soldiers inlisted and mustered for the three year's service, in the American army: Said Smith is twenty years old, five feet six inches high, light complexion, redish…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: April 17, 1781
Location: Lenox, MA

Pomp

05-17-1781.gif
Escaped from his keepers at the house of the widow Tharp, in North Haven, on the night of the 13th instant, a Negro fellow named Pomp, lately belonging to James Barker, Esq; of Branford, but now enlisted in Col. Meigs's regiment; who, on the 11th…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: May 17, 1781
Location: North Haven, CT

Chadwell Parsons, Luke Morris, William Young, Stephen Prentice, Nicholas Davenport, Pelatiah Turner, David Worster, Samuel Doolittle, Henry Worster, Benjamin Prescott, Peter Stackett, John Heacock, Ebenezer Harthaway, Thomas Smith, William Wharton, Elihu Rennals, James Derby, Heth Baldwin, Samuel Holt, Ephraim Palmer, and James Bush

STOP VILLAINS! The prison of Newgate was broke up last night, one of the guard killed, and a number more wounded, and the following prisoners escaped (and carried off with them the arms and ammunition belonging to the guard) viz. Chadwell Parsons,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 22, 1781
Location: Windsor, CT

Sarah

Whereas Sarah, my wife, hath eloped from [my bed] and board; I therefore forbid all persons to [trust] her on my account, as I will not pay ant debts that she [will contract] after this date. John [...] Farmington, May 20, 1781.
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 26, 1781
Location: Farmington, CT