Cato
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN away from the subscriber on the 20th day of October last a Negro man named Cato, about 22 years old, about 6 feet, handsome but great eyes, is a Popow Negro, has been in the country 5 years, talks poor English, had on when he ran away a brown waistcoat, a striped woollen ditto. check'd woollen shirt, check'd linnen trowsers, snuff colour'd breeches, and an old blue great coat. - Whoever will take up said Negro and return him to me at Saybrook ferry shall have FOUR DOLLARS reward and all necessary charges payed by SAMUEL SANFORD.
Citation
Samuel Sanford, advertisement for Cato, Connecticut Courant, November 6, 1775, accessed June 8, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4549.