Negro Man
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN-away from the subscriber in Woodbury, a Negro Man, about 23 years of age, very black and trim built a small head and flat nose and pitted on the nose with the small pox; he is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high; took away with him a butternut coloured great coat, a straight bodied coat and overhalls of the same colour, the coat has yellow buttons and a yellow button on his hat, a large quantity of other cloaths of all sorts. Whoever will take up said Negro and confine him or deliver him to me shall have One Hundred Dollars Reward. OBADIAH WHEELER. April 7, 1779
Citation
Obadiah Wheeler, advertisement for Negro Man, Connecticut Courant, April 20, 1779, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4648.