Jube
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
Ten Dollars Reward! RUN away from the Subscriber, on the night of the 12th inst. a Negro man, named JUBE, about 34 years old, six feet high, has a large under lip, speaks good English, keeps his knees near together when he walks, runs his shoes on the one side, draws much tobacco, had on and took with him, a dark brown outside a jacket and under do. both homespun cloth and lined with black, striped towcloth shirt and trowsers, 1 pair white yarn 1 pair homespun thread and 1 pair blue yarn stockings, a short nankeen jacket with sleeves, a pair of nankeen breaches, a pair of white woolen do. a dark gray homespun great-coat, two white Holland shirts one ruffled over the hands of the other at the bottom, 1 pair of turn'd pumps patched, a pair of plated silver shoe buckles, and a sale caster hatt newly dressed. Whoever will take up and deliver said Negro to his master in Hartford, shall have the above reward and charges paid, by GEORGE SMITH. Hartford, May 17, 1784.
Citation
George Smith, advertisement for Jube, Connecticut Courant, May 18, 1784, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4721.