Runaway Connecticut

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Katharine Knox

On the morning of the 19th inst. eloped from her husband, living in Schenectada, Katharine Knox, his wife; her only provocation was being instigated by evil advisers, &c. This is therefore to caution all persons from trusting or crediting her, as I…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 8, 1776
Location: Schenectada, 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

Joanna Hebbard

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Amenia, in Dutches-County, in the Province of New-York, December 4th, 1765. WHEREAS my Wife Joanna Hebbard, hath for some time past Eloped from me, and gone into some Parts of the Colony of Connecticut; These are therefore to warn and forbid all…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: January 17, 1766
Location: Amenia, NY

John Hawley and John Fitzgerald

DESERTED from my company, in Col. Burrell's regiment, at Albany, on the evening of the 31st of March ult. two Irishmen, John Hawley and John Fitzgerald, both of them considerable of their native brogue, they are each about five feet and half high;…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: April 29, 1776
Location: Albany, NY

David Killey

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RAN away from the subscriber on the night of the 27th instant, an indented servant, named DAVID KILLEY, in the 18th year of his age, of midling stature, light complexion, fore teeth decayed; carried away with him one suit of London brown home-made…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: May 28, 1790
Location: Mansfield, CT