1801-04-04 Freedom Seeking: Harry
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01030
- Source
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Runaway ad for Harry, by William Conover
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Runaway ad for Harry, by William Conover, "Forty Dollars Reward," True American, April 14, 1801, p. 3.
- Event Description
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On April 4, 1801, a Black man named Harry ran away from his enslaver William Conover, living near Princeton in Middlesex County, NJ.
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Transcript of the source document:
"Forty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living near Princeton, in Middlesex county, New-Jersey, on the 4th inft. A Negro Man, by the name of HARRY, five feet nine or ten inches high, very black and remarkably strait; had on when he went away, a short homespun cloth jacket and blue trousers. Whoever will take up said negro, and secure him in any goal so that his master may get him again, shall be entitled to the above reward.
WILLIAM CONOVER
April 13, 1801." - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- April 4, 1801
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Location of Event
- Princeton
- Primary Participants
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Harry
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02450
Role: Runaway
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Conover
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro Man, by the name of HARRY, five feet nine or ten inches high, very black and remarkably strait" - Additional Participants
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William Conover
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02451
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Indy Davis
- Princeton & Slavery Project