Runaway Connecticut

Search using this query type:



Advanced Search

Browse (863 total)

David Clark, Joseph Green, Jonathan Smith, Robert Dunkley, Peleg Burdick, and Abraham Ferris

THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED some time past from Capt. William Sizer's company of Artificers, David Clark and Joseph Green, both inhabitants of Milford, carpenters by trade. Said Clark aged about 38 years, and Green 58. Also, Jonathan…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: February 22, 1780
Location: West Point

[John] Lawton

DESERTED from Continental service, [John] Lawton of Woodstock, returned to me legally draughted for the army until the 1st day of Jan. next, was properly warned to join the army, and refused to obey said warning and absented he was taken and…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 21, 1778
Location: Hartford, CT

a Molatto Slave

Last Thursday Evening, made his escape at Middletown, (from Capt. Edward Clark of Rutland, in the County of Worcester, and Province of Massachusetts-Bay) a Molatto Slave, about 18 years old, bushy Hair, of a middling Stature, well made and sturdy;…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 30, 1766
Location: Rutland, MA

a Mollato fellow

Run away from his Master Isaac Day of Colchester, in the County of Hartford, and Colony of Connecticut in New England, a Mollato fellow about eighteen Years old, middling stature, brown complection, strait course black hair, a scar on the inside of…
Date: December 4, 1753
Location: Colchester, CT

a Negro Man

TAKEN up, August 26, 1765, and secur'd in Hartford Goal, a Negro Man, aged about 22 Years, of a yellow Complection, a thick sett Fellow, about 5 Feet 5 Inches in Height, speaks good English, and is a smart, active Fellow. Had with him when found, a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: September 9, 1765
Location: Hartford, CT

an Apprentice Boy and a Negro Man

RUN-away from Josiah Griswold, of Weathersfield, the Night after the 24th Instant, an Apprentice Boy about 17 Years of Age, about 5 Feet thre Inches high, dark Complexion, wears his own long black Hair, had on, and carried with him, a light colour'd…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: October 27, 1766
Location: Weathersfield, CT

a Negro Wench

RUN-away from the subscriber the latter end of May last, a Negro Wench, about 50 years of age, of small stature, remarkably black; she was formerly the property of Mr. Daniel Goodwin, of Hartford, where it is supposed she is again returned. Whoever…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 13, 1792
Location: Johnstown, NY

a transient person

On the 7th inst. Dec. I the subscriber took up a transient Person with a quantity of Merchant's Good's, to the amount of thirty of forty pounds, which are supposed to have been stolen; the man escaped from his keeper on the evening of the 11th…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: December 31, 1789
Location: New Fairfield, CT

a young man

RUN AWAY from me the subscriber on the 16th day of instant Nov. a young man, about 24 years of age, a short thick set fellow, red complexion, dark hair, hard favour'd, dull heavy eyes, stole and carried off with him when he went away a wool hat half…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: December 4, 1770
Location: Waterbury, CT

Aaron

Ten Dollars Reward. Run away from the subscriber the 20th of instant March, a negro man, named Aaron, about 24 years old, he is a slim built fellow, he has lost all his upper teeth on one side, occasioned by the kick of a horse which mark he cannot…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: April 3, 1794
Location: Southington, CT