Runaway ad for Dick, by Alpheus Freeman
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00595
- Source Type
- Runaway Advertisement
- Headline
- Twenty Dollars Reward
- Author
- Alpheus Freeman (1766-1813)
- Publication
- Guardian, Or, New-Brunswick Advertiser
- Place of Publication
- New Brunswick
- Date of Issue
- November 12, 1807
- Date Submitted
- August 22, 1807
- Description
- A typewritten copy of an advertisement offering 20 dollars reward for the capture and return of Dick, placed by Alpheus Freeman. The copy was found among the materials gathered in the early 20th century by Rutgers University historians in the biographical file for Alpheus Freeman, class of 1788.
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Twenty Dollars Reward
Ranaway from the subscriber on Thursday evening the 16th inst. a mulatto boy, named Dick, a slave of the subscriber, about 17 or 18 years of age, short and thick, with very bushy hair, has one or two scars in the forehead, the sinews of one of his hams a little contracted from a burn when an infant, the scar of which still remains, a scar on the top of one of his feet from an ulcer, an another scar on one of his great toes, occasioned by its being split open with an axe; had on when he went away a pair of tow trousers and shirt, an old great coat an old hat, no shoes or any other wearing apparel. Whoever will take up and secure said boy in any gaol, so that the subscriber may get him again, shall be entitled to the above reward with reasonable expenses.
Alpheus Freeman
New Brunswick (N.J.)
Aug. 22, 1807 - Language
- English
- Archival Collection
- Rutgers University Biographical Files: Alumni (R-Bio Alumni)
- Archival Location
- Box 2, Freeman, Alpheus, 1788
- Record Contributor
- Shaun Armstead
- Jesse Bayker
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