Silva
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RUN away from the Subscriber the 17th instant, a Negro Wench, named SILVA, about 24 years of age, smallish size, thick and well made, had on and took with her 2 brown Skirts and striped short Gowns. Whoever will take up and secure said Wench and give information to the Subscriber, shall have Five Dollars Reward and charges paid by, ELIJAH HENSDALE. Farmington, June 19, 1784. N. B. Said Wench before she run away threw a stone and fractured the skull of her master and otherwise much wounded him.
Citation
Elijah Hensdale, advertisement for Silva, Connecticut Courant, June 22, 1784, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4723.