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Glasco (commonly called Glass)

FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD!!!
Runaway from the subscriber, on the 19th instant, a Negro Man Servant named GLASCO, but commonly called GLASS - aged about 22 to 23 years - in height 5 feet 10 inches. He is bony, robust, and stout built, and is vey…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 1, 1807
Location: Easton, NY

Ezra Ingraham

Runaway from the subscriber last Sunday evening, a young lad 14 or 15 years of age, named Ezra Ingraham, has a scurvy face, red nose and thick set - carried with him several articles of clothing, viz a white homespun shirt, a check do. and a fine…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 8, 1807
Location: Hartford, CT

Tom

Fifty Dollars Reward!! RUNAWAY on Monday the 25th of this instant, from the subscriber, a Negro Man, named Tom, about 25 or 26 years old, had on when he went away, a round blue jacket, swansdown vest, a homespun striped trowsers, a felt hat, he is…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 8, 1807
Location: Marlborough, NY

Mason Green

FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. ESCAPED from his keepers on the night after the 12th day of inst. July, at the dwelling-house of Daniel Pitkin, jun. inkeeper in East-Hartford, in the county of Hartford, Mason Green, of East-Windsor, in said county, being a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 24, 1811
Location: East Hartford, CT

Bob

FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN-away from the subscriber on the night of 29th of May last, a Negro Man named BOB, 22 yers old, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, wears his hair platted up before, is of a stocky make, full face, pretty black and pleasant…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 5, 1814
Location: Newpaltz, NY

Moses

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STOP RUNAWAY. 20 Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from the subscriber at Long-Island, a Black Man by the name of MOSES, about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high – one eye a little less than the other – walks a little lame from a wound received on the heel, where he…
Newspaper: Connecticut Herald
Date: July 14, 1818
Location: Smithtown, NY

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

Lyman Dwight Brewster

RAN away from the subscriber on Sunday morning, the 15th inst. an indented negro boy, by the name of Lyman Dwight Brewster, 14 years old, rather small of stature; said boy wore away a new felt hat, black coat, light vest, check cotton pantaloons,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 8, 1823
Location: East Windsor, CT

Jacob Smith

15 Dollars Reward. ESCAPED from New Gate Prison on the 5th instant, a Convict by the name of Jacob Smith, an Indian Mullatto, about 27 years old, 5 feet two inches high, has a large scar on each of his shins, and the surface of his skin is…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 9, 1827
Location: East Granby, CT

Cyrus Sperry

Run away, on the 10th of June and indented boy 16 years old, by the name of Cyrus Sperry. Said boy is about 5 feet high, blue eyes, with a curled head of hair; had on when he went away a suit of dark brown clothes and a napt hat, with a pair of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 5, 1830
Location: Canton, CT