Runaway Connecticut

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Sam

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Twenty Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from the Subscriber on Thursday the 9th Inst. a NEGROMAN named SAM, about 24 Years old, but appears by his Countenance to be much older, a tall, stout, well built Fellow, in Colour a dark yel-low. has a very large Foot,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: October 29, 1783
Location: New Haven, CT

Bristol

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RANAWAY last night from the subscribers living in East-Greenwich, a negro man, slaved named BRISTOL, by trade a shipwright and cocker, brought up in the town of Newport; he is of a yellow complexion, aged about 26 years, 5 feet 9 inches high, with a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: October 3, 1783
Location: East Greenwich, RI

Pomp

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RAN away from the subscriber last April,a negro fellow named POMP, a slave for live, a stout thick fet fellow,very black.Whoever will return said negro to the subscriber, shall have Six-pence reward. All persons are forbid harbouring said fellow on…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: October 12, 1787
Location: Stonington,CT

Oliver Simmons

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RUNAWAY FROM the suscriber on Wednesday of last week, an indented Indian Boy, named OLIVER SIMMONS, about 18 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, wears a bandage on the middle finger of the left hand, in consequence of the loss of the first…
Newspaper: Middlesex Gazette
Date: October 25, 1826
Location: Durham, CT

Joseph Sherry

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Run-away from the subscriber, on the night of the 30th of September last, and apprentice boy named Joseph Sherry, aged about nineteen years, small of stature, and dark complexion. Whoever shall take up and return to me said boy, shall have a gerous…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: October 24, 1787
Location: East Haddam, CT

Isaac Fraser, Silas Palmer, Henry Tomet, and Samuel Cheree

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Fairfield, October 11, 1766. IN the Night following the 10th of this Instant, broke out of the Goal in Fairfield, Isaac Fraser, committed for Burglary, and one Silas Palmer, of Greenwich in the county of Fairfield, committed for a riot. Said Palmer…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: November 1, 1766
Location: Fairfield, CT

Charles

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RANAWAY from the subscriber about the 12th of September last, a Negro Man named Charles, about 30 Years old, slender built, speaks broken English; it is supposed he is concealed in this Town by some evil minded Person - Whoever shall take up said…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: October 20, 1779
Location: Wallingford, CT

Jere

NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors to the estate of TABITHA BIGELOW, late of Hartford, deceased, that the Hon. Court of Probate for the district of Hartford has allowed three months from the date for said creditors to exhibit their claims for…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 31, 1785
Location: Hartford, CT

John Way

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Farmington, Sept. 12, 1769. RUN-Away from the subscriber of Farmington, on the 1st of Sept. inst. a Molatto, Indian and Negro blood, named John Way, about 30 years of age, about 6 feet high, slim built, speaks good English, small voice, wears his own…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 2, 1769
Location: Farmington, CT

Caesar Sambo

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Notice: is hereby given, that there is now in Litchfield Goal, a Molatta Fellow, who calls himself Caesar Sambo, about 5 feet 10 Inches high, speaks good English, well made, and sprightly, and is about 25 years old : he says he is free, and that he…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: October 31, 1761
Location: Greenwich, RI