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Shedrich

Runaway from the subscriber, on the first inst. a NEGRO MAN, named Shedrich, about 22 years of age, six feet high, of a middling size, straight built, of a yellow cast, has some impediment in his speech, his fore teeth in his upper and tower jaws…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 9, 1809
Location: Newburgh, NY

Jenny

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TAKEN up and detained in this city, a Negro Girl, by the name of JENNY, about 20 years old, of middling stature, says she belongs to one William Greene, near Fish-Kill Ferry, State of New-York, was travelling in man's cloaths towards Boston, the…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 27, 1784
Location: Hartford, CT

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

Dick and Joe

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Manor of St. George August 23, 1774- RANAWAY from the subscriber at the Manor of St. George, on the South Side of Long Island, opposite to Brook Haven, a MOLATTO SLAVE, half negro and half Indian, name DICK, about 5 feet 8 inches high, full faced,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: September 16, 1774
Location: Manor of St. George, 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