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Luke Duin

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Run-away last Monday, from the subscriber of Chatham, an Irishman between 30 and 40 years of age, of a dark complexion, wears his own dark hair, a little inclining to a curl, of a middling stature carries his head a little back, a thin face, long…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: August 29, 1768
Location: Chatham, CT

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

Thomas Feaks

Deserted from Capt. John Bigelow's company of artillery, Thomas Feaks, an Irishman, about 45 years of age, five feet nine inches high, somewhat pitted with the small pox, and red short hair; lately complains of an ailment in his throat. Whoever…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: May 27, 1776
Location: Albany, NY

Bill

TEN DOLLARS REWARD, RUN away from the subscriber, on the 9th instant, a Negro man named BILL, about 6 feet 9 inches high, well built, about 26 years of age, talks good English, had on when he went away a white Shirt, white Jacket and Breeches, and…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: February 18, 1783
Location: Albany, NY

Dick

75 Dollars Reward.
Stop Thief and Runaway!

RAN away the 21st of August instant, a stout, well made Negro Man, named Dick; aged about 22 years, nearly six feet high; remarkably active, straight and well shaped; speaks the English language very…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: November 28, 1796
Location: Albany, NY

York and Rup

120 DOLLARS REWARD
RAN away from the subscriber on Whit-Sunday, two NEGRO MEN SLAVES, named YORK and RUP; both aged about 32 years. York is about five feet nine inches high, very black, pock marked, ugly, crooked fellow; he has a small impediment in…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: June 25, 1806
Location: Albany, NY

Dine and Jim

Pittsfield Sun ; or, Republican Monitor. (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) • 06-06-1807 - Dine (wench).gif
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber on the 16th inst. a Negro Wench named DINE, about thirty-five years of age, of middling size, strong and healthy; wore, when she went off, a blue striped woollen short gown, blue linsey petticoat, and…
Newspaper: Pittsfield Sun
Date: June 6, 1807
Location: Albany, NY