Negro Servant Woman
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Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Subscriber, on Wednesday the 13ult. a negro servant woman, about twenty years old, almost white. The wench is a smart likely girl, about five feet five inches high, slim built, speaks but little, has a scar on her right arm which appears to be a scald: was bred on the Island of Barbadoes. In all probability will try to make that place again. All persons are forbid harbouring her, masters of vessels are requested to pay a particular attention, as they will answer it at their peril.
JOHN CAPE.
New-York, July 15, 1785.
N.B. All charges paid. We have heard that she had made an acquaintance with a negro man from the Eastward.
RAN away from the Subscriber, on Wednesday the 13ult. a negro servant woman, about twenty years old, almost white. The wench is a smart likely girl, about five feet five inches high, slim built, speaks but little, has a scar on her right arm which appears to be a scald: was bred on the Island of Barbadoes. In all probability will try to make that place again. All persons are forbid harbouring her, masters of vessels are requested to pay a particular attention, as they will answer it at their peril.
JOHN CAPE.
New-York, July 15, 1785.
N.B. All charges paid. We have heard that she had made an acquaintance with a negro man from the Eastward.
Citation
John Cape, advertisement for Negro Servant Woman, Connecticut Journal, August 10, 1785, accessed February 4, 2026, https://runaway.fairuse.org/runawayct/items/show/5627.