Awan
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Language Skills
Reward
Transcription
Ten Dollars Reward. RUN-away from the subscriber the 25th of December, a negro man named AWAN, 27 years of age, upwards of 6 feet high, a slim fellow with large deet, speaks Dutch and broken English, when spoken to shows his teeth-his cloathing consisted of a light coloured jacket and breeches, his coat a dark brown, with metal buttons-a linsy woolsy great-coat lin'd with strip'd-a flap'd hat-carried a fiddle with him in a camblet cross bar'd case-a check wollen and white shirt. Whoever will apprehend said negro and secure him in any goal and give information to the subscriber, so that he may have him again, or return him, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges paid by DIRCK WYNKOOP. Kingston, (in Esopus Ulster County State of New-York) February 2, 1792.
Citation
Dirck Wynkoop, advertisement for Awan, Connecticut Courant, February 6, 1792, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4806.