Lew or Lewis
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Language Skills
Reward
Transcription
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN-away from the subscriber, the 29th May last, a negro man named LEW, or LEWIS, is about 25 years old, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, very black, a long under lip, speaks low Dutch, tolerable good English, and a low tone of voice; had on when he went away, a light mixed linsey-woolsey short coat, with large metal buttons, a black Velvet vest, a dark linsey-woolsey trowsers, and had with him 2 new coarse shirts, and 2 pair of shoes; whoever will apprehend said Slave, and return him to the subsciber, or lodge him in any Goal and give information to the subscriber so that he gets him again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges. JOSEPH HASBROUCK, Jun. Newpaltz, Ulster County, (N. Y.) June 15 1814.
Citation
Joseph Hasbrouck, advertisement for Lew or Lewis, Connecticut Courant, June 28, 1814, accessed June 8, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/4979.