Henry
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN-away from the subscriber on the 24th March last, a Negro Boy, named Henry, about five feet 9 inches high, middling black, 18 years of age, a strait well looking fellow; had on when he went away a round wool hat, bound with black binding, a short bearskin coat and waistcoat with appletree buttons, grey coating trowsers, white shirt, and took with him considerable other cloathing and stole from the subscriber to the value of thirty pounds New-York currency. Whoever will take up and secure said Negro so that the subscriber can have him again, shall be entitled to the above reward and all reasonable charges paid by me. JONATHAN BAYLES. Rye in Westchester county, state of N.Y. April 3, 1796.
Citation
Jonathan Bayles, advertisement for Henry, Connecticut Courant, April 11, 1796, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4873.