Scip
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD! RUN away from the Subscriber on the 26th of April last, a Negro MAN servant, named SCIP, about 23 years of age, middling stature, well sett, born in the country, speaks good English, and can read tolerable well; had on when he went away and carried with him, one pair of blue broadcloth breeches, a red Waistcoat, a light mixt coating doublebreasted jacket, with buttons covered with blue cloth, two striped Shirts, one white do. one pair of blue seemed Stockings, one pair of white do. a white Jacket, a green broadcloth Coat, a pair of brown linen breeches, a small beaverHhat, in one fell do. Whoever will take up and return said servant to me in New-London, north parish, shall have the above reward and all reasonable charges paid---All masters of vessels and others, are forbid to carry off or harbour said servant. WILLIAM PRINCE. New-London, May 15, 1783.
Citation
William Prince, advertisement for Scip, Connecticut Courant, June 3, 1783, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4706.