1774-09-19 Freedom Seeking: Peet
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01061
- Source
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Runaway ad for Peet, by Aaron Longstreet Jr
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Runaway ad for Peet, by Aaron Longstreet Jr, "FOUR DOLLARS Reward," New-York Gazette, and the Weekly Mercury, November 14, 1774, p. 2.
- Event Description
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On September 19, 1774, a 27-year-old Black man named Peet ran away from his enslaver Aaron Longstreet Jr of Princeton, NJ. He evaded capture until at least November 8, when his enslaver submitted a runaway ad for Peet to a New York newspaper. The ad appeared in the newspaper, called the New-York Gazette, and the Weekly Mercury, for a month and a half until December 26, 1774.
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Transcript of the source document:
"Princeton, November 8th, 1774.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, on Monday the 19th of September last, a Negro man named PEET, about 27 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, yellow complexion; he has a large scar on one side of his neck, and another on his head, occasioned by a cut with a knife: Had on and took with him a brown broadcloth coat and waist coat, tow trowsers, a red great coat, a pair of drilling breeches, and a fustian coat and waistcoat. Whoever takes up said Negro, and secures him in any of his Majesty’s goals so that his master may have him again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
AARON LONGSTREET, jun." - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- September 19, 1774 – November 8, 1774
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Location of Event
- Princeton
- Primary Participants
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Peet (b. 1747)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02522
Role: Runaway
Age: 27
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Aaron Longstreet Jr. (1741-1829)
Verbatim description from source:
"a Negro man named PEET, about 27 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, yellow complexion; he has a large scar on one side of his neck, and another on his head, occasioned by a cut with a knife" - Additional Participants
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Aaron Longstreet Jr. (1741-1829)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02521
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Indy Davis
- Princeton & Slavery Project