1791-04-24 Freedom Seeking: Harry
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01029
- Source
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Runaway ad for Harry, by Jeromus Rappleyea
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Runaway ad for Harry, by Jeromus Rappleyea, "Three Pounds Reward," Brunswick Gazette, May 17, 1791, p. 3.
- Event Description
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On Easter day in 1791, Harry ran away from his enslaver Jeromus Rappleyea of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Harry was 24 and could speak English and Dutch.
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Transcript of the source document:
"Three Pounds Reward.
Made his escape from the subscriber, living near New-Brunswick, on last Easter Day, A NEGRO MAN named HARRY, twenty-four years of age, five feet ten inches high, very black, remarkably thin, and has very large white eyes, had on when he went away, a wool hat half worn, a white red and purple striped vest, a short blue linsey coat unsulled, striped trousers, half worn shoes, speaks the Dutch and English languages, talks very slow. Whoever secures said negro, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges.
JEROMUS RAPPLEYEA
New-Brunswick, May 16, 1791" - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- April 24, 1791
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Location of Event
- New Brunswick
- Primary Participants
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Harry (b. 1767)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02448
Role: Runaway
Age: 24
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jeromus Rappleyea (d. 1831)
Verbatim description from source:
"NEGRO MAN named HARRY, twenty-four years of age, five feet ten inches high, very black, remarkably thin, and has very large white eyes; speaks the Dutch and English languages, talks very slow" - Additional Participants
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Jeromus Rappleyea (d. 1831)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02449
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Indy Davis
- Princeton & Slavery Project