Runaway ad for Jack, by James Parker Sr. · New Jersey Slavery Records

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Identifier: NJS-SRC-00660
Source Type: Runaway Advertisement
Item: Runaway ad for Jack, by James Parker Sr.
Author: James Parker Sr. (1725-1797)
Publication: New-Jersey Gazette
Place of Publication: Trenton
Date of Issue: 13 March 1782
Date Submitted: 9 March 1782
Transcript: Run Away a Negro Man named Jack, about thirty-five years old, straight and well-limbed and about five feet ten inches high, very white even teeth, has holes in his ears understands the coopers trade and can talk French; had on a striped woolen shirt, a clothcolored jacket and waistcoat much worn and patched, a pair of buckskin breeches almost new and stained in the seat by riding bareback, grey stockings and shoes newly soaled took with him a homespun coat, buttons covered with same and lined with blue, a jacket and breeches of homespun dimity a white linen shirt and pair of new shoes. Whoever apprehends the said Negro and delivers him to the subscriber or secures him in any gaol so that he may be had again, shall be paid three Pounds and reasonable charges by James Parker. Pitts Down, Hunterdon County, March 9, 1782.
Language: English
Reproduced In: Hodges, Graham Russell, and Alan Edward Brown, eds. “Pretends to Be Free”: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. New York: Garland, 1994. Page 266, item 581.; https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/RF5LS46h_gIC
Record Contributor: Kate Jackson
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1782-03 Freedom seeking: Jack