1798 Capture: Jack
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01082
- Source
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Runaway ad for Jack, by Frederick Cruser
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Runaway ad for Jack, by Frederick Cruser, "100 Dollars Reward," Daily Advertiser, January 16, 1799, p. 3.
- Event Description
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A Black freedom seeker named Jack was apprehended 10 miles south of Boston (on the road between Taunton and Boston, after passing Dighton). He was captured at the home (or business) of a person named Devenport. Jack was brought back to Rocky Hill, near Princeton, New Jersey, where his enslaver Frederick Cruser lived and operated a mill.
The exact date of this event is not known. It occurred sometime in 1798 or earlier, and Jack would have been under the age of 23 at the time. Information about this capture event comes from a runaway ad that was published after Jack ran away again; that runaway ad, published in January 1799, mentioned that Jack had run away before and was captured. The ad stated: "ran away once before and was found at one Devenports 10 miles this side of Boston, on the road from Tanton to Boston, had been at Diton." - Event Type
- Capture
- Date
- 1798
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Preceding Event
- 1797 Freedom Seeking: Jack
- Following Event
- 1798-12-30 Freedom Seeking: Jack
- Primary Participants
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Jack (b. 1775)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02504
Role: Captured Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Frederick Cruser (b. 1766) - Additional Participants
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Frederick Cruser (b. 1766)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02503
Role: EnslaverDevenport
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02535
Role: Additional Participant
Comment: Jack was captured at Devenport's - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker