Liverpool
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN-AWAY from the subscriber in the night of the 16th of April, a Negro boy named LIVERPOOL; had on a brown jacket, a blue cap, blue stockings and red vest: is a short thick fellow, about 18 years of age. Whoever will take up and secure said Negro so as his master may have him, shall have FIVE DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable charges paid by me his master, living near Salisbury Furnace on the Oblong in Dutchess County. JOSHUA DAKINS. April 26, 1777.
Citation
Joshua Dakins, advertisement for Liverpool, Connecticut Courant, May 12, 1777, accessed September 10, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4607.