Runaway ad for Ben and Jack, by Leffert Waldron and Ernestus Van Harlingen
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00661
- Source Type
- Runaway Advertisement
- Publication
- New-York Journal, or, the General Advertiser
- Place of Publication
- New York City, New York
- Date of Issue
- June 15, 1769
- Date Submitted
- June 12, 1769
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- June 12, 1769 Run-away on Saturday the 10th of this Instant, from Leffert Waldron, at the 3 Mile Run, near New Brunswick, a yellowish Negro, named Ben, about 19 years old, about 5 feet 2 inches high, bushy Hair, speaks both low Dutch and English: Had on when he went away, a brown homespun Coat, with white Metal buttons, new homespun breeches, Felt Hat and sundry other Clothes. Also, at the same time, run away, a Negro Fellow, from Ernestus Van Harlingen, at Millstone, in the County of Somersett, at the Court-House, named Jack, about 21 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches high, well built, also yellowish, speaks both Dutch and English: Had on when he went away, a blue coat, brown jacket, half worn Leather Breeches and Felt Hat. Whoever will take up said Negroes and secure them so that their Masters may have them again, shall have Six Dollars reward if taken within the Province and Seven Dollars if taken without the Province, or half for each, paid by us. Leffert Waldron and Ernestus Van Harlingen.
- Language
- English
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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 152, item 329. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/RF5LS46h_gIC
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- Xandria McKinley
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