Runaway Connecticut

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Fortune

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These are to inform the public, that whereas a transient Negro man, who calls his name Fortune, to apperance about 50 years of age, of a middling stature, who came to Torrington on the 18th day of January last, and taken in by Mr. Aaron Austin of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: March 3, 1772
Location: Torrington, CT

Benjamin Willcox

RUN AWAY from me the subscriber the 15th of this Instant May, one Benjamin Willcox, a servant boy about 15 years old had on when he went away a blue coat; black with [...] coat, striped long trowsers, a felt hat, a [...] bushey head of hair, brownish…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 2, 1772
Location: Simsbury, CT

Guinea

Run-away from the subscriber at Litchfiled, a Negro man about 40 years old, Named Guinea, thick sett, of a middleing height, for four or five years past was owned by Moses Doolittle of Chester, has lived for some time at Middletown and is supposed to…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 9, 1772
Location: Litchfield, CT

Tony

Ran-away from the Subscriber the Evening of the 4th Instant a Negro Man named Tony, about 25 Years of Age, about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, well set and very Black; took with hum when we went away 1 new Coat and Vest of a claret Colour, mixed with red…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 23, 1772
Location: Hebron, CT

Elisha Wadsworth, Abraham Curtis,and John Grant

Take Notice! The 26th Instant, the County Goal in this Place was broke up, and the following Persons made their Escape from it viz. Elisha Wadsworth of Hartford, confined for Debt, he is about 56 Years of Age, about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, wears a Cap…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 7, 1772
Location: Hartford, CT

William Johnson

Run-away last Monday night from Wethersfield a transient person who says his name is William Johnson an old countryman, about 5 feet 9 inches high about 25 years of age, wore his own light coloured short, curl'd hair, well built, has a sore on his…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 7, 1772
Location: Wethersfield, CT

John Brown

BROKE out of the Goal in this Place, the Night after the 14th June Instant, the noted Borglarian John Brown, who was uder Sentence of Death for House breaking, is a short, thick Fellow, 22 Years old, has been twice crop'd and branded. Whosoever will…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 9, 1772
Location: Litchfield, CT

two Negro Men

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Six Pounds Reward. RUN away from their Masters John Northrop, of Newtown, and John Sanford, of Reading, in Fairfield County, on the 31st May last, two Negro Men: the one belonging to John Northrop, was about 5 Feet 9 Inches high, about 25 Years old,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 21, 1772
Location: Newtown, CT

George Gordon alias Hamlinton

Run away from the subscriber, a prisoner named George Gordon alias Hamlinton, a Scotchman, about five feet ten inches high short brown hair, long favor'd, a high-forehead, a very long Nose, a remarkable scar across his left check, had on a blue…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 18, 1772
Location: Dover, NY

Abigail Butler

These are to give public notice, that I the subscriber do forewarn and forbid all persons from trusing my wife Abigail Butler, any money Goods or Chattles on my account, as I am determined not to pay any debt of her contracting, after the date…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 1, 1772
Location: Stafford, CT