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Mary Metcalf

Wheras my perfiduous wife Mary, on the 23rd day of October last, willfully eloped from my bed and board, and I am told is now in the town of Suffield, in the colony of Connecticut, and am apprehensive she may run me in debt. These are therefore to…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 29, 1771
Location: East Haddam, CT

Mary Alvord

Whereas I the subscriber have removed from East Haddam to Winchester, and my wife Mary utterly refusing to remove to my bed and board, by which refusal she hath forfeited the privileges of a wife - These therefore are to forbid all persons trading…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 30, 1771
Location: East Haddam, CT

Tom

RUN AWAY from the subscriber, the night of the third inst. a Negro Man, named TOM, 40 years old, tall, well built, very black, speaks good English, marked with three strait streaks on one or both temples, had on and carried with him two checked and…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: November 20, 1781
Location: East Haddam, CT

Jack

RAN AWAY, the 2d instant, from the subscriber, a NEGRO MAN, named jack, about 19 years old, upwards of 5 feet 4 inches high, has a blemish in one of his eyes, speaks quick; had on and carried away a whitish coloured Coat, one striped red and white…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: December 17, 1782
Location: East Haddam, CT

Eunice Mobbs

Whereas Eunice the wife of the subscriber having eloped from my bed and board, all persons are forbid trusting or harbouring said Eunice, for I will not pay any debt of her contracting after the date hereof. Pierce Mobbs. East-Haddam, June 30, 1787.
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: July 2, 1787
Location: East Haddam, 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

Warner Andrews and Selden Miner

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RAN away from the subscriber, on the 10th inst. two Boys, one by the name of WARNER ANDREWS, about 17 years of age, slender built, had on when he went away, a grey colored short coat, vest and trowsers, and new felt hat; the other about 12 years of…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: April 11, 1793
Location: East Haddam, CT