1770-05 Capture: Silas
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01073
- Source
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Runaway ad for Silas (listed as Sy), in August 1770, by Isaac Coats
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Runaway ad for Silas, escaped March 1770, by Isaac Coats
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Runaway ad for Silas (listed as Sy), in August 1770, by Isaac Coats, Pennsylvania Journal, August 23, 1770, p. 3.
Runaway ad for Silas, escaped March 1770, by Isaac Coats, "RUN-AWAY," Pennsylvania Journal, April 19, 1770, p. 3. - Event Description
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A young Black man named Silas was apprehended after running away from his enslaver, Isaac Coats of Philadelphia. He originally ran away in March 1770, and he was still at large four weeks later when his enslaver published a runaway ad on April 19, 1770. He was captured sometime after this date and before August 1770 (when he would make another escape attempt).
Silas was seen in Burlington, New Jersey, where he worked as a chimney sweep and kept company with several other Black men who were also engaged in that trade. He was probably apprehended there in Burlington, although the location where he was captured has not been definitively confirmed. - Event Type
- Capture
- Date
- May 1770 – July 1770
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Preceding Event
- 1770-03 Freedom Seeking: Silas
- Following Event
- 1770-08 Freedom Seeking: Silas
- Primary Participants
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Silas (b. 1752) {Sy}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02502
Role: Captured Person
Age: 17
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isaac Coats - Additional Participants
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Isaac Coats
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02501
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker