York
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY, yesterday, from the subscriber's farm in Bergen County, New Jersey, a negro man called York, about 22 years of age, tall and thin, being about 5 feet 10 inches high: large eyes, thick lips, has a scar across one of his temples, and another between the thumb and fore finger of the left hand. Had on a short coat of light coloured clothing, with white metal buttons, a woolen jacket of a grayish ground with black and white stripes, and yellow metal buttons, corduroy trowsers, pale blue yarn stockings, and boots. This fellow is suspected of having maliciously set fire to a Barn in the neighbourhood sometime ago, which with the horses and cattle in it was entirely consumed, and it is imagined that the fear of some proof being likely to come against him, has induced him to run away, as no cause or appearance of discontent had occurred in the family to occasion it.--- It is hoped therefore that every person who may hear of such a fellow in his neighbourhood, will endeavour to apprehend him. Whoever takes and secures the above fellow in any jail, shall receive the above reward. JMES JAY. May 13. It is hoped the Printers of News papers, in tge neighbouring States, will insert the above, that [...] a villain may not escape.
Citation
James Jay, advertisement for York, Connecticut Courant, May 26, 1800, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4904.