Runaway ad for Michael (alias Jem), by William McClellan Jr
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- NJS-SRC-01130
- Source Type
- Runaway Advertisement
- Headline
- Fifty Dollars Reward
- Publication
- Porcupine's Gazette
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Date of Issue
- June 5, 1797
- Date Submitted
- June 5, 1797
- Transcript
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Fifty Dollars Reward.
Ran away from the subscriber in the borough of York, the 28th inst. a negro man named Michael, he is about five feet 8 or 10 inches high, stout made, broad shouldered, thick jawed, bandy legged, and stoops considerably when walking; has lost two or three of his fore teeth, is somewhat dull of hearing and seldom speaks unless spoken to. Had on and took with him a grey coloured cloth coat, a jacket and overalls of drab colour, 1 pair of nankeen coveralls, 1 pair of striped trowsers, 1 fine shirt, and 1 or 2 coarse do. 1 pair of new shoes. The said negro was raised in Princeton in New Jersey, by Captain Albert Scank, and it is probable he may attempt to return there. He ran away about two years and a half since, and lived some time near Reading in this state, where he obtained a pass which carried him to Trenton in Jersey, and there had it countersigned by a Justice Anderson from whence he went to New-York, and returned to Trenton; at which place I apprehended him last winter in the service of Mr. Vanbertie a foreign minister, at that time he was called by the name of Jem. Whoever takes up said Negro and secures him in any jail, so that I may get him again, shall receive the above reward.
WILLIAM MCCLELLAN.
June 5. - Language
- English
- Record Contributor
- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux
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