Runaway Connecticut

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Sarah Ann Shea

A RUNAWAY. RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the 25th of June ist. SARAH ANN SHEA, a servant girl, about 17 years old; of a bold masculine appearance, light hair, rather large of her age, wore away a brown mantle trimmed with plush trimming, a green…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 8, 1823
Location: East Windsor, CT

Wyllis Cole

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Stop the Runaway RUN away from the Subscribers, on the night of the 9th instant an indented Apprentice to the Shoemaking business, by the name of Wyllis Cole. Said boy is 19 years old, of a dark complexion, about 5 feet, 3 inches high, thick set-…
Newspaper: Middlesex Gazette
Date: January 13, 1819
Location: Middletown, CT

Peter and Henry Wiltse

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TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, a Negro man named Peter, aged about 25 years. Took with him a blue coat, and a blue camblet vest, a blue cut Manchester pair of breeches, and some other cloathing. The said Negro was bred at Long…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 19, 1765
Location: Fish Kill, NY

Zebulon Prut

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RUN away from the Widow Elizabeth Porter of Hadley, a Negro Man named Zebulon Prut, about 30 years old, about five Feet high, a witish Complexion, suppos'd to have a Squaw in Company: Carried away with him a, a light brown Cabinet Coat, lin'd and…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 8, 1766
Location: Hadley, MA

Servant Lad

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RUN AWAY from me the subscriber of Weathersfield, on Monday the 25th inst. a Servant Lad, about 11 or 12 years of age, had on when he went away an old Hat, a light blue Jacket, a pair white tow Trowsers, no shoes when he went away. Whoever takes up…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 2, 1769
Location: Weathersfield, CT

Uriah Cross

TEN DOLLARS REWARD. RUN AWAY the night after the first inst. from the subscriber in Toland, an apprentice boy named Uriah Cross, about 20 years of age, 5 feet and 4 inches high, thick set, wears his own dark colour'd hair, his left hand something…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: March 5, 1770
Location: Toland, 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

Giles Richards

Ten Dollars Reward. Last Night run away from the Subscriber, in Waterbury, an Apprentice named GILES RICHARDS, about 19 years of age, about 5 Feet 9 Inches high, middling felshy, well educated, light coloured Eyes, light brown Hair, commonly tied or…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: November 10, 1772
Location: Waterbury, CT

John Hinson

Ten Dollars Reward. LAST Night escaped from New Gate Prison at Simsbury, one John Hinson, lately committed for Burglary, who is about 5 Feet 6 Inches high, has black Eyes, dark Hair, of a hair Complexion, and about twenty Years of Age - (he was…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 11, 1774
Location: Simsbury, CT

William Johnson Crawford and Daniel Humphry

Simsbury, April 11, 1774. LAST Saturday night the prisoners in New Gate Prison in Simsbury opened a way that had been in part stop'd up, that led from the place of their confinement into an old deep shaft that was partly filled with rocks and stones.…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 3, 1774
Location: Simsbury, CT