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Grig, Jack, Frank, and Peter
ON the night of the 8th instant, run away from the subscribers, four Negro men one named GRIG and one JACK. Grig about 21 years of age and Jack about 19, about 5 feet 1 or 2 inches high, Greg has a scar on his left cheek and neck occasioned by the…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
October 22, 1782
Location:
Bethlem, CT
Dick
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber the 7th inst. a MOLATTO fellow, named DICK, 22 years of age, about 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high, middling thick, pitted with the small pox, walks wide with his knees, pretty surly look: had on when he…
RUN away from the subscriber the 7th inst. a MOLATTO fellow, named DICK, 22 years of age, about 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high, middling thick, pitted with the small pox, walks wide with his knees, pretty surly look: had on when he…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Journal
Date:
October 24, 1782
Location:
Staatsburg, NY
Peter
Inticed away by some evil minded person, the 9th of August, a Negro Lad, between 16 and 18 years of age, named PETER, had on a striped linen Coat, and Jacket, plain tow cloth Shirt and Trowsers, an old blue broadcloth Coat, with polished buttons…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
November 12, 1782
Location:
Hartford, CT
Derry and Dan
RAN away on Monday Night the 28th Instant, a negro Man named DERRY, about 27 years of age, six feet and about 2 inches high, pretty slim, looks a little cross eyed, his feet very extraordinary large and long, carried with him one caster Hat, two…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
November 19, 1782
Location:
Chatham, CT
Mary West
Whereas my wife Mary, has eloped from my bed and board, and behaved herself unbecoming the charachter of a wife. I forbid all persons trusting her on my account, as I will not pay any debt of her contracting from the date hereof. William West.…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
November 19, 1782
Location:
Litchfield, CT
Peter and Harry
RUN-away from Isaac Smith, of Dutchess County, State of New-York, on the 8th day of May last, a Negro Man named PETER, about 20 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches high, black but not of the blackest sort, thick lips, he was at Deerfield about the…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
November 26, 1782
Location:
Dutchess County, NY
Jack
RAN AWAY, the 2d instant, from the subscriber, a NEGRO MAN, named jack, about 19 years old, upwards of 5 feet 4 inches high, has a blemish in one of his eyes, speaks quick; had on and carried away a whitish coloured Coat, one striped red and white…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
December 17, 1782
Location:
East Haddam, CT
Robert Smith and Dick
RUN away from the Subscriber, on the night after the 15th inst. a Servant Boy, named ROBERT SMITH, about 18 years of age, about 5 feet 4 inches high, dark hair and eyes, had on and carried with him a light coloured great Coat, two brown homespun body…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
December 31, 1782
Location:
Hartford, CT
Prince
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the 1st instant, a NEGRO MAN, named PRINCE, about 6 feet high, well built, speaks good English, about 23 years old; took with him a short light brown Coat, the buttons marked U. S. A. a grey…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
January 7, 1783
Location:
Not Specified
Martin Wilcocks
OBSERVING yesterdays paper, to my great surprize I found myself advertised by him who ought to have been my friend and husband; who forbids all persons trusting me on his account, which I can safely say they never did nor never will, until he behaves…
Newspaper:
Connecticut Courant
Date:
January 14, 1783
Location:
New Hartford, CT