April 1792: Robin and Sam escape from Morristown, New Jersey
Twenty
Dollars Reward.
Run
away from the subscriber, on Monday the 9th current, a Negro man named
Robin, is 55 years of age, stout made, and bred a farmer; one of his
thumbs much swelled; is 5 feet 6 inches high; had on when he went away
a big purple coloured cloth coat, a short linen coat, a pair of fustian
breeches, a ruffled shirt, an old beaver hat, with shoes, stockings
and buckles, all good.
Also,
a young Negro boy named Sam, is 19 years of age, stout and well made,
5 feet 9 inches high, much marked with smallpox; had onwhen he went
away, a big blue coat, a brown short coat, overalls of a mixed cloth,
fulled stockings, a new wool hat, new shoes and buckes.--
Whoever
will secure said Negroes in any gaol, or bring them to the subscriber,
shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid.
Alexander
Robertson
Morris-Town, April 17, 1792.
Source:
Gazette of the United States (New York), Saturday, 2 June
1792. This same advertisement was also published on Wednesday, 6 June and Saturday, 9 June 1792. |