Grig, Jack, Frank, and Peter
Newspaper
Date
Location
Reward
Transcription
ON the night of the 8th instant, run away from the subscribers, four Negro men one named GRIG and one JACK. Grig about 21 years of age and Jack about 19, about 5 feet 1 or 2 inches high, Greg has a scar on his left cheek and neck occasioned by the kings evil, carried with him one old mixt coloured great coat, one butnut broadcloth do. one scarlet jacket, one white do. one pair of leather breeches, one pair white jane do. one of ruffled and one plain Holland shirt, to check do. to woollen do. one pair of check trowses, one pair of French cut silver shoe buckles and knee do. two old blue surtouts twiled coating, one Barcelona handkerchief, three pair of stockings, and one fife. Jack carried with him, one blue coat, one white do. homespun, one pair of linen breeches, one pair of striped trowsers, one Holland shirt, one white homespun do. one pair of white yarn stockings, one pair of blue do. one pair of boots. Likewise, one Negro man named FRANK, about the same height, about 24 years of age, had on when he went away, a blue lapped'd coat faced with white, one pair of white woollen breeches and light coloured jacket. Also, one old Negro named PETER, carried with him, one blue coat, one green do. one brown do. one red great coat and a number of other clothes unknown. Whoever will take up said Negroes and return them to their masters, shall have Ten Dollars Reward for each, except the old Negro, and shall have a reasonable reward for him, and all necessary charges paid for him in the whole. ELIAS DUNNING, EBENEZER GUERNSEY, GIDEON MARTIN, SOLOMON MARSH. Bethlem, October 9, 1782.
Citation
Elias Dunning et al., advertisement for Grig et al., Connecticut Courant, October 22, 1782, accessed September 11, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4693.