Wooder
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RAN-AWAY from the Subscriber, a Negro Fellow, named WOODER, about 22 years old, this country born, about 5 feet 8 inches high, thick lips, something long savoured, has a scar on the back of one of his hands, (that was burnt when he was a child,) when he stoops down the small of his back sticks up as though it had been broke; wore away a full cloth butternut coloured jacket, striped blue and white under jacket without sleves, check'd black and white woolen shirt, and check'd trowsers much the same; carried off a check'd linen shirt, two striped black and white woolen jackets much worn. Whoever will take up said fellow, and confine him in goal, and notify me thereof, or convey him to me, shall have ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS Reward and all necessary charges, paid by JOSHUA POWERS. Lime, October 16, 1779.
Citation
Joshua Powers, advertisement for Wooder, Connecticut Courant, December 14, 1779, accessed September 12, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4665.