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Prince

ONE GUINEA REWARD. RUN AWAY from his Master, on Tuesday last, a Negro Boy named PRINCE, about fifteen years old, a small likely looking lad, speaks good English, is rather talkative and saucy. He carried with him, an old blue coat with steel buttons,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 2, 1780
Location: Hartford, CT

Susannah Orcutt

Whereas Susannah, the wife of me the Subscriber, hath, for ten or eleven months past, eloped from my bed and board, contrary to my will, and hath embezled my affects. I do hereby forbid all persons harbouring or dealing with her on my account, as I…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 16, 1780
Location: Somers, 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

John Welch, Nicholas Davenport, Caleb Austin, Jr., Ebenezer Reed, Nathaniel Hustead, Phineas Rundle, Joseph Beard, Charles Buckston, William Thomson

550 Continental Dollars Reward. ON the evening after the 30th of May instant, Litchfield County Gaol was broke open, and the following prisoners made their escape, viz. JOHN WELCH, a deserter from the British, an Irishman; confined for murder, short…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 13, 1780
Location: Litchfield, CT

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

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

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