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George White

Run away from me the subscriber, on the 26th day of Dec. instant, a servant boy named George White, about 19 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, had on when he went away an old felt hat, a brown out side jacket an old cloth colour'd under ditto, a check…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 11, 1774
Location: East Windsor, CT

John Hinson

Ten Dollars Reward. LAST Night escaped from New Gate Prison at Simsbury, one John Hinson, lately committed for Burglary, who is about 5 Feet 6 Inches high, has black Eyes, dark Hair, of a hair Complexion, and about twenty Years of Age - (he was…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 11, 1774
Location: Simsbury, CT

Norman Newell

Six Shillings Reward. RUN AWAY from the subscriber living in Farmington, in the county of Hartford, an apprentice boy named Norman Newell, about 14 years of age, lightish complexion, brown hair, a large kernel underneath his jawbone - Had on a light…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: March 15, 1774
Location: Farmington, CT

Caesar and Cuff

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TEN DOLLARS Reward. RAN-AWAY from the Subscriber of Bedford, in the Province of New York, on Sunday the 10th Instant, two Negro Men, one named Caesar, about 32 Years old, about 6 Feet high, knock-knee'd, has with him a grey Great Coat, two grey…
Newspaper: Connecticut Journal
Date: April 22, 1774
Location: Bedford, NY

Negro Man

RUN away from Elihu Hyde of Spencer Town on the 17th day of instant April, a Negro Man about 26 years of age, had on when he went away a mix'd colour'd short coat, black and blue, an under double breasted waistcoat, one side of it plaid, dirty…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: April 26, 1774
Location: Spencertown, NY

William Johnson Crawford and Daniel Humphry

Simsbury, April 11, 1774. LAST Saturday night the prisoners in New Gate Prison in Simsbury opened a way that had been in part stop'd up, that led from the place of their confinement into an old deep shaft that was partly filled with rocks and stones.…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 3, 1774
Location: Simsbury, CT

Zephaniah Ramsdel, John Roberts, and James Williams

Last Saturday night New Gate Prison was again broke open, and the following persons made their escape, viz. Zephaniah Ramsdel about 27 years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches high, lightish yellow hair something short, grey eyes, thinish face; had on a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 3, 1774
Location: Simsbury, CT

Bond

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TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUNAWAY from the subscriber, of Canaan, in Litchfield County a Negro man named BOND, about 27 Years old, six Feet high, well sett, one of his upper Fore Teeth broke out, this Country born stutters a little, had a Fiddle with…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 17, 1774
Location: Canaan, CT

Gibbens Wentworth

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RUN away from the subscriber in Canaan upon the 23rd day of March last, an apprentice boy named Gibbens Wentworth, 19 years of age of a middling stature, goes a little slooping forward, of a brown gloomy countenance, brown hair and eyes, a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 17, 1774
Location: Canaan, CT

Isaac Lane

RUN away from me the subscriber on the night before the 12th day of May instant, an apprentice boy named Isaac Lane, his is of a darkish complexion, about 5 feet 3 inches high, and is lame with one of his legs, and mich shorter than the other, he is…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 24, 1774
Location: Chatham, CT