Shedrich
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
Runaway from the subscriber, on the first inst. a NEGRO MAN, named Shedrich, about 22 years of age, six feet high, of a middling size, straight built, of a yellow cast, has some impediment in his speech, his fore teeth in his upper and tower jaws some defective, he has a large scar on his left thigh occasioned by the cut of an ax. Whoever will take up said runaway, and confine him in some gaol, and direct a letter to the subscriber in Newburgh, in Orange County, and state of New York, so that he may be had, shall receive twenty dollars reward, and all necessary charges paid by me.
Notes
speech impediment and various scars
Citation
William Edmonston, advertisement for Shedrich, Connecticut Courant, August 9, 1809, accessed June 7, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4960.