Runaway ad for Prince (updated with five pound reward), by William Peartree Smith
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-01174
- Source Type
- Runaway Advertisement
- Headline
- RUN away on the 13th of August
- Publication
- New-York Gazette, or, the Weekly Post-Boy
- Place of Publication
- New York City, New York
- Date of Issue
- September 18, 1758
- Page
- 4
- Description
- This is an updated version of the advertisement that first appeared in the newspaper on August 21, 1758. The original version said that whoever apprehended the runaway would be "well rewarded," but did not specify the amount of the reward. This updated version, which noted that the reward would be 5 pounds, was first printed in the September 18, 1758, issue and ran for at least two weeks. No other details were changed in the text of the ad.
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RUN away on the 13th of August Instant, from William Peartree Smith Esq; of Elizabeth-Town in New Jersey; A Negro Man called Prince, had on a Leather Cap, Linnen Waistcoat and Breeches, coarse blue Stockings, a thick pair of Shoes, speaks English and Dutch, has lived in Jamaica in the West-Indies with Mr Simon Parsco, and in Dutchess-County, in New York Colony with Mr. Nixon, has been lately seen in New-York, and it is said has passed King's-Bridge, where he shewed a Pass and pretended that he belonged to a Butcher in New-York, and was going into the Country to fetch Cattle for his Master: Whoever secures him in any of his Majesty's Goals, so that his Master may have him again, shall have FIVE POUND reward.
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- English
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Runaway ad for Prince, by William Peartree Smith
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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