Nicholas Smith, Daniel Whitmash, and Elisha Miller
Newspaper
Date
Location
Reward
Transcription
BROKE Goal on Saturday night last, Nicholas Smith, five feet eleven inches high, forty-seven years old, something pitted with the small-pox, speaks broken English, committed for Stealing negroes and for debt. --- Also, Daniel Whitmash, five feet eleven inches high, dark complection, thin favoured, committed for debt ---- Also, Elisha Miller, five feet nine inches high, about thirty-five years old, light complection, thin favoured, committed for debt, a blacksmith. --- Whoever will take up said prisoners and return them to the goal in Great-Barrington, in the county of Berkshire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, shall have for Smith, Twenty Dollars reward, for Whitmash, Ten Dollars, and for Miller, Five Dollars, and all reasonable charges from the time they or any of them are taken, to the time they are returned to the goal in Great-Barrington. CALEB HIDE, Sheriff. EBEN. BEMPNT. Goaler. Great-Barrington, May 17, 1784.
Citation
Caleb Hide and Eben. Bempnt., advertisement for Nicholas Smith, Daniel Whitmash, and Elisha Miller, Connecticut Courant, June 1, 1784, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4722.