Runaway Connecticut

Search using this query type:



Advanced Search

Browse (46 total)

Ishmael Mux

01-16-1761.gif
Run-away from the Subscriber, about a Month ago, a Mellatto Man-Servant, named Ishmael Mux, about 28 years old, white Complexion of a middle Stature, broad Shoulder'd, and very round back and stoops much as he walks; wears his own Hair, and can Read…
Newspaper: New-London Summary
Date: January 16, 1761
Location: New London, CT

Joanna Hebbard

01-17-1766.gif
Amenia, in Dutches-County, in the Province of New-York, December 4th, 1765. WHEREAS my Wife Joanna Hebbard, hath for some time past Eloped from me, and gone into some Parts of the Colony of Connecticut; These are therefore to warn and forbid all…
Newspaper: Connecticut Gazette
Date: January 17, 1766
Location: Amenia, NY

John Anson

olcott-01-01-1770.gif
RUN AWAY from the subscriber of West-Hartford, on the Monday, the 25th of December last, an indentured servant, named John Anson, an Englishman, about 22 years of age about 5 feet 9 inches high, wears is his own curl'd Black hair, dark complection,…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 1, 1770
Location: West Hartford, CT

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

John Smith, Obadiah Mathers, Jechaniah Holcomb, Jonas Case, John Swaney, and George Tryon

Hartford, January 27, 1772. Broke out of the County Goal in this town, the last evening, one JOHN SMITH, who came into this colony a few years since, supposed from the province of new-York, and has resided chiedly at Suffield, where he married a…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 28, 1772
Location: Hartford, CT

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

York

RUN away from the subscriber at Goshen, on the 24th day of November past, a Negro man named York, upwards of fifty years of age, about five feet eight inches high, had on when he went away a black jacket, brown coat, leather breeches, and duffil…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 2, 1775
Location: Goshen, CT

Benjamin Taylor

Last night run away from the subscriber an apprentice boy, named Benjamin Taylor, about 19 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, by trade a shoemaker and tanner, has light colour'd hair, had on a brown cloth colour'd coat, and jacket a pair of buck skin…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 2, 1775
Location: Litchfield, CT

Elizabeth Howd

Whereas my wife Elizabeth, hath eloped from me, and is gone off with another man, and had robb'd me of all my household furniture, together with several notes of hand, and other papers of consequence. These are therefore to forewarn all persons not…
Newspaper: Connecticut Courant
Date: January 30, 1775
Location: Farmington, CT