Dine and Jim
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Date
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TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber on the 16th inst. a Negro Wench named DINE, about thirty-five years of age, of middling size, strong and healthy; wore, when she went off, a blue striped woollen short gown, blue linsey petticoat, and a new black Leghorn bonnet. Took with her, her own black male child, about six months old, named JIM. She speaks Dutch as well as English, having been principally brought up in Dutch families.
It has been conjectured that she has been decoyed away, and may have got on board of some vessel, and gone to New-York. Or in company, perhaps, with some black man, may have gone up the Mohawk river, where she said she had children. She once run away from her former master and rambled into Connecticut, where she was taken up and brought back.
The conduct of this servant is peculiarly ungrateful; I had owned her but about two months, during which time she had never been put to hard service, or ill treated; I had engaged to give her the privilege to look herself a new master, should she be discontented, and besides had promised to free her in six years from the time I purchased her, provided she behaved well. Any person who shall take her up and return or secure her, so that I can obtain her, shall be entitled to the above reward, and all reasonable charges, if decoyed away, she may be offered for hire or sale, and thus detected. ISAAC MITCHELE.
Albany, May 26, 1807
RUN away from the subscriber on the 16th inst. a Negro Wench named DINE, about thirty-five years of age, of middling size, strong and healthy; wore, when she went off, a blue striped woollen short gown, blue linsey petticoat, and a new black Leghorn bonnet. Took with her, her own black male child, about six months old, named JIM. She speaks Dutch as well as English, having been principally brought up in Dutch families.
It has been conjectured that she has been decoyed away, and may have got on board of some vessel, and gone to New-York. Or in company, perhaps, with some black man, may have gone up the Mohawk river, where she said she had children. She once run away from her former master and rambled into Connecticut, where she was taken up and brought back.
The conduct of this servant is peculiarly ungrateful; I had owned her but about two months, during which time she had never been put to hard service, or ill treated; I had engaged to give her the privilege to look herself a new master, should she be discontented, and besides had promised to free her in six years from the time I purchased her, provided she behaved well. Any person who shall take her up and return or secure her, so that I can obtain her, shall be entitled to the above reward, and all reasonable charges, if decoyed away, she may be offered for hire or sale, and thus detected. ISAAC MITCHELE.
Albany, May 26, 1807
Citation
Isaac Mitchele, advertisement for Dine and Jim, Pittsfield Sun, June 6, 1807, accessed September 10, 2025, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/5577.