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Tom

Run away from me the subscriber, a negro man, named TOM, a little on the molatto colour, aged 19 years, speaks good English and low Dutch, has a blemish in one eye. Had on when he went away, a light blue coat, white Philadelphia buttons, and best of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 15, 1771
Location: Amenia, NY

Boston

Run-away from the subscriber of Waterbury, on the 1st instant, and since on the 9th instant escaped from the subscriber after being taken at Lyme, a Negro man slave named BOSTON, about 35 years of age, being the Negro man that was formerly owned by…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: August 16, 1771
Location: Lyme, CT

Ruth Higgins

On the 4th day of July instant eloped from Jesse Higgins, his wife, by name Ruth Higgins; and thsi is to give public notice to all persons, not only in this government, but in those around it, not to detain or harbour the said Ruth or altow her to…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 13, 1771
Location: Chatham, CT

Mary Pettibone

I am so unhappy in my last marriage as to inform the public that my wife Mary has privately run me in debt at many places, and has absented herself from my bed and board, and carried off with her all she bro't with her, and thirty pounds or upwards…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 30, 1771
Location: Goshen, CT

Mary Alvord

Whereas I the subscriber have removed from East Haddam to Winchester, and my wife Mary utterly refusing to remove to my bed and board, by which refusal she hath forfeited the privileges of a wife - These therefore are to forbid all persons trading…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 30, 1771
Location: East Haddam, CT

Nancy Savage

Whereas Nancy the wife of the subscriber, has eloped from my bed and board, and has run me in debt, and I am apprehensave she will further involve me - These are therefore to warn all persons not to trade with, or trust her on any expectation of my…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 30, 1771
Location: Blanford, MA

Ben

Waterbury July 22, 1771. Run-away from the Subscriber, on the 20th Instant, a Molatto fellow named BEN, of a Copper complexion, about 17 Years of Age, wellset and sprightly, he has a black bushy Head of Hair, speaks good English and is adicted to…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: July 26, 1771
Location: Waterbury, CT

Jeremiah Durkee

Run away from the subscriber in Canady, in Windham County, Jeremiah Durkee, an apprentice Boy about 17 years of age, had on and carried away two felt hats four shirts, and all his other cloaths, is about five feet nine inches high, and a little cross…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 9, 1771
Location: Canady, CT

Harry

Great-Barrington, June 26, 1771. This day escaped from me the subscriber in this place, a negro man named Harry about 24 years of age speaks good English, had on a red coat, cuff'd and lappel'd with green velvet suppos'd to be an old coat of his…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 9, 1771
Location: Great Barrington, MA

Newport and unnamed woman

RUN away from the subscriber hereto, the evening foltowing the 12th of May last from Milford, in the colony of Connecticut, in New-England, a negro man named Newport, aged 29 years, a stout well set, broad shoulder'd fellow, for height about…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 2, 1771
Location: Milford, CT