Runaway Connecticut

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Abel

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Run away last Tuesday night, a negro man named Abel, about 20 years old, of a small stature, talks good English; bad on when he went away a fest hat, a greenish colour'd flannel coat with brown lining, a white fustian jacket something wore, a check'd…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: May 10, 1771
Location: Milford CT

Elijah Plummer and Bass

Deserted from Capt. Ezekiel P. Belden's troop, in Col. Elisha Sheldon's regiment of Dragoons, Elijah Plummer, a pretty well built and good looking fellow, about 23 years of age 5 feet 1 inches high dark complexion and a little pitted with the small…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 12, 1778
Location: Not Specified

Gibbens Wentworth

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RUN away from the subscriber in Canaan upon the 23rd day of March last, an apprentice boy named Gibbens Wentworth, 19 years of age of a middling stature, goes a little slooping forward, of a brown gloomy countenance, brown hair and eyes, a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 17, 1774
Location: Canaan, CT

Isaac Evens

Run away from the subscriber, on the night of the 20th inst, April, a young man named Isaac Evensm about 20 years of age; said runaway had on a lead coloured double breasted jacket, a pair of new leather breeches; he is of a swarthy complexion, had…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 6, 1776
Location: Amenia Precinct, NY

John Parker Robinson

Run away from Northampton, the 30th of April last, a prisoner, named John Parker Robinson, about twenty years of age, very much pitted with the small pox, and about five feet seven inches high: Had on when he went away, a dark black and white mixed…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 6, 1776
Location: Northampton, MA

Daniel Squier or David Johnson

Run away from the subscriber, a young man about sixteen years of age, a well-set fellow, about five feet high, with short black hair; had on when he went away, an old deep blue coat, a striped linsey woolsey jacket, a streaked linsey-woolsey shirt,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 13, 1776
Location: Deerfield, MA

Michael Ribley and Thomas Gardner

DESERTED from Capt. John Bernard's company, Col. Wylly's regiment some time since, Michael Ibley, 24 years of age, 4 feet 4 inches high, dark eyes, brown hair, dark complexion. Jacob Evens, 22 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, light hair, gray…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 5, 1777
Location: Hartford, CT

John Delany

DESERTED from Captain Abby's company, in Colonel Wylly's regiment, on the 5th instant, a soldier who call himself John Delany, is a native of Ireland, twenty-four years of age, five feet ten inches high, black hair, light coloured eyes, red…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 12, 1777
Location: Enfield, CT

Charles Wiempey

DESERTED from Capt. Cahampion's company, Col. Wyllys's regiment, one Charles Wiempey, born in Farmington, in Connecticut, 6 feet high, strait and well proportioned, black long hair, black eyes and dark complexion, wore away a homespun coat and vest,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 12, 1777
Location: Hartford, CT

James Mackeys and Richard Whaland

DESERTED from Capt. Barnard's company, in Col. Wyllys's regiment, (sometime since) one James Mackeys, about 27 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, well set, dark complexion, black hair, is a shoemaker. Also one Richard Whaland, about 24 years of age,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 12, 1777
Location: Hartford, CT