Tom
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Language Skills
Reward
Transcription
Fifty Dollars Reward!! RUNAWAY on Monday the 25th of this instant, from the subscriber, a Negro Man, named Tom, about 25 or 26 years old, had on when he went away, a round blue jacket, swansdown vest, a homespun striped trowsers, a felt hat, he is about five feet 9 or 10 inches high, bends in his walk, he is crossey'd, has a scar on one side of his head, speaks Dutch and broken English. Whosoever will apprehend said Negro, and lodge him in any goal, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges; information to be given to Gerard S. Sloan, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, Jabob Dayton, New Paltz, Ulster County, or to the subscriber near Ecker's Derry, Marlborough, Ulster county. CORNBURY DAYTON. May 26, 1807.
Citation
Cornbury Dayton, advertisement for Tom, Connecticut Courant, July 8, 1807, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4949.