1799-12-31 Jailing: Adam Hill, Henry Hall, Isaac Harmone
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00794
- Source
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Runaway pickup notice for Adam Hill, Henry Hall, and Isaac Harmone
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Runaway pickup notice for Adam Hill, Henry Hall, and Isaac Harmone, "In custody in Middlesex gaol, the following Negro men, to wit," Guardian, Or, New-Brunswick Advertiser, January 7, 1800, p. 3. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Loose Newspaper Collection (Ac. 3193). Box 27, Folder 15.
- Event Description
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On December 31, 1799, the keeper of the Middlesex County jail announced that three Black men were being held at the jail as suspected runaways. Their names were Adam Hill, Henry Hall, and Isaac Harmone, and they all hailed from different places. Adam Hill's enslaver was listed as "Wm. Mc. Mutrea" of Philadelphia, most likely referring to the Philadelphia merchant William McMurtrie. The names of the other men's enslavers were not reported. The jailkeeper noted that the three men would be sold if their enslavers did not come to take them away by January 21, 1800.
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Transcript of the source document:
"In custody in Middlesex gaol, the following Negro men, to wit:
ADAM HILL, says he belongs to Wm. Mc. Mutrea of Philadelphia, 21 years old—Henry Hall, about six feet high, supposed to be about 26 years old, and some gentleman’s coach man or waiter, and from his dialect, judged to be from Maryland or Virginia.—Isaac Harmone, five feet six or seven inches high, very black, about 20 years old, says he lived at the Head of Elk, State of Delaware.
The owners of the above negroes are requested to pay charges and take them away before the 21st of January ensuing, or they shall on that day be sold to defray expense and goal fees, at the city of New-Brunswick, and State of New-Jersey.
December 31, 1799. 10-3" - Event Type
- Jailing
- Date
- December 31, 1799
- Location of Event
- Middlesex County gaol (jail), New Brunswick
- Preceding Event
- 1799-11 Freedom Seeking: Henry Hall
- 1799-11 Freedom Seeking: Adam Hill
- 1799-11 Freedom Seeking: Isaac Harmone
- Primary Participants
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Adam Hill (b. 1778)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01948
Role: Jailed Person
Age: 21
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William McMurtrie (1740-1807)
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro man; ADAM HILL, says he belongs to Wm. Mc. Mutrea of Philadelphia, 21 years old"Henry Hall (b. 1773)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01949
Role: Jailed Person
Age: 26
Status: Enslaved
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro man; Henry Hall, about six feet high, supposed to be about 26 years old, and some gentleman’s coach man or waiter, and from his dialect, judged to be from Maryland or Virginia"Isaac Harmone (b. 1779)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01950
Role: Jailed Person
Age: 20
Status: Enslaved
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro man; Isaac Harmone, five feet six or seven inches high, very black, about 20 years old, says he lived at the Head of Elk, State of Delaware" - Additional Participants
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William McMurtrie (1740-1807)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01956
Role: Enslaver
Comment: reported enslaver of Adam Hill - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson