Tom
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, the night of the third inst. a Negro Man, named TOM, 40 years old, tall, well built, very black, speaks good English, marked with three strait streaks on one or both temples, had on and carried with him two checked and one white shirt. A grey surtout, a cut-velvet snuff coloured jacket, and an otter coloured ditto, and one old ragged ditto, blue yarn stockings and old shoes. Whoever will return said servant to his master shall have ten hard Dollars reward. GREEN HIUGERFORD. East-Haddam, Nov. 4, 1781
Citation
Green Hungerford, advertisement for Tom, Connecticut Courant, November 20, 1781, accessed June 8, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4682.