Runaway ad for Lindor and his bride, by John Baptist Cheilan
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-01125
- Source Type
- Runaway Advertisement
- Headline
- Ten Dollars Reward
- Author
- John Baptist Cheilan
- Publication
- Federalist & New-Jersey State Gazette
- Place of Publication
- Trenton
- Date of Issue
- April 20, 1802
- Date Submitted
- April 14, 1802
- Transcript
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Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN away on Saturday last the 10th inst a Negro man named LINDOR. About thirty years of age, five feet eight inches high. Well made, round visage, a smooth skin, having a little deformity in one of his thumbs, smooth tongued and of an engaging countenance with strangers ; he speaks broken English and is usually dressed in a short blue coat and half booths he had also with him, when he went away, a chestnut colored great coat, he eloped with a young mulatto girl about eighteen years of age to whom it is pretended he is married ; part of the family to which she belongs lives at Rocky Hill. Any person stopping the said Negro man and lodging him in the nearest goal, shall receive the reward above mentioned by giving advice to the subscriber.
J. B. CHEILAN
All persons are prohibited from employing the said negro without the special permission of his master, under whatever penalty of the law may inflict.
Princeton, April 14, 1802 - Language
- English
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- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Indy Davis
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