Dick
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUNAWAY the night after the 14th instant, a negro man named Dick about 24 years old, about five feet high not thickset has a scar on his left arm above his elbow, cut by an ax, had a blue coat a brown millcolour'd one an old one two vests, one beverhat cut in fashion two pair of leather breeches and other cloaths. Whoever will take up said negro and return him to me, shall have ten dollars reward, and all necessary charges paid. MARTIN KERUM. Nobletown June 15, 1778.
Citation
Martin Kerum, advertisement for Dick, Connecticut Courant, July 7, 1778, accessed June 8, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4631.