1799-11 Freedom Seeking: Isaac Harmone
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00798
- 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
- A Black man named Isaac Harmone ran away from his enslaver in the area of Head of Elk (present-day Elkton), at the border of Maryland and Delaware around 1799 (or earlier). The name of his enslaver is uncertain. He ran to New Jersey. He was later apprehended around Middlesex County. See the related jailing event for Isaac Harmone for details.
- Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- November 1799
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Location of Event
- Elkton, Maryland
- Related Place
- Middlesex County
- Following Event
- 1799-12-31 Jailing: Adam Hill, Henry Hall, Isaac Harmone
- Primary Participants
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Isaac Harmone (b. 1779)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01950
Role: Runaway
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" - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson