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Prince

RUN away from the subscriber at Dover, in Duchess County, and Province of New York, on the 16th inst. a Negro man named Prince, had on a round beaver hat, a short white broad cloth coat, a red inside jacket, green superfine breaches, white shirt,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 1, 1776
Location: Dover, NY

Tilleson Miller

DESERTED from Capt. Wm. King's company, Col. Jon. Ward's regiment, one Tilleson Miller, a drummer, he is about 30 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, has a peaked chin, and something of a guilty look, he has liv'd for a year or two past with Col.…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 22, 1776
Location: New York, NY

Elisha Sherman, Charles Sweet, and Joseph Moor

DESERTED from Capt. Joshua Conkey's company of rangers, in the county of Charlotte, and state of New York, Elisha Sherman, Charles Sweet, and Joseph Moor, lately living at Arlington in the New Hampshire grants, and suppos'd to be at Newtown in…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: December 30, 1776
Location: New Perth, NY

Liverpool

RUN-AWAY from the subscriber in the night of the 16th of April, a Negro boy named LIVERPOOL; had on a brown jacket, a blue cap, blue stockings and red vest: is a short thick fellow, about 18 years of age. Whoever will take up and secure said Negro so…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 12, 1777
Location: The Oblong, Dutchess County, NY

Tom

FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber last night, a Negro man, named TOM, about 9 years of age, thick short neck and long legs, one side of his face swelled with the tooth ach, a small scar on his right eye-brow. Had on when he went away…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 7, 1795
Location: Spencertown, NY

Cuff

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Run away from the Subscriber, of Beekman's Precinct, in Duchess County, on Saturday, the 23d Instant a Negro Man, named Cuff, about five Feet high, about thirty Years old, a thick well set Fellow; he wore a lightish Colour'd Broad Cloth Coat, a Blue…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: September 29, 1769
Location: Beekman, NY

Crispus Cros

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Run-away from the Rev. John-Frederick Rees of Claverack, on the First of January last, a Mulatto Negro Man, named Crispus Cros, about Six Feet high, raw-bon'd, had on a dark brown long friz'd Coat, half warn felt Hatt, red Indian Stockings,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: February 2, 1767
Location: Claverack, NY

Sam and Sam

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RUN-AWAY from the subscribers, two Negro men, supposed to be aged about 22 years each, both named SAM, one a large well built fellow, with very large feet, wore leather Breeches, a grey Coat and large Hat; the other a well set fellow, a little knock…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: April 6, 1784
Location: Fish Kill, NY

Luke Duin

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Run-away last Monday, from the subscriber of Chatham, an Irishman between 30 and 40 years of age, of a dark complexion, wears his own dark hair, a little inclining to a curl, of a middling stature carries his head a little back, a thin face, long…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 29, 1768
Location: Chatham, CT

Prince

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RUNAWAY on Monday the 14th Instant September, from Gale Yelverton of Poughkeepse, In Duchess-County, a Negro Man, named Prince, 30 Years old, about 5 Feet 5 Inches high a well built Fellow; had on when he went away, a brown Jacket, tore a little down…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: October 17, 1761
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY