Nero
Newspaper
Date
Runaway(s)
Location
Reward
Transcription
RAN away from sub-scriber, a Negro Man Slave, named NERO; he is a well grown stoat built fellow, about 6 feet high, is a good singer and dancer, and is ingenious and active, has large feet, his little finger on his left hand something crooked, and one of his upper teeth is a little on the blueish order, different from the rest, he is pitted in the face with small-pox, and is about 25 years of age; when he went away he carried with him a pair kersey tow trwsers, a pair of strip'd ditto, a pair of blue short breeches, four under jackets, two of them striped, one brown linen, the other brown broad cloth, one white shirt, two check'd ditto, a beaver hat, a red and yellow silk handker-chief, four pair stockings, one pair shoes, a pair silver shoe buckles, and a pair of stone silver sleeve button: Whoever will take up said negro and return him to the subscriber, sall be hansomely rewarded and all necessary charges paid by, JAMES STODDARD.
Citation
James Stoddard, advertisement for Nero, Connecticut Gazette, July 6, 1781, accessed June 8, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/5521.