1802-09-05 Freedom Seeking: Prime
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01111
- Source
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Runaway ad for Prime, by Edmund Burroughs
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Runaway ad for Prime, by Edmund Burroughs, "Twenty Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, September 13, 1802, p. 3.
- Event Description
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On September 5, 1802, a Black man named Prime ran away from his enslaver Edmund Burroughs of Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, NJ.
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Transcript of the source document:
"Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN away, on Sunday the 5th instant, a Negro man named PRIME, nineteen years of age, of a yellow colour, somewhat marked with the small pox, his right upper sore tooth broken off, he is five feet six or seven inches high, had on a gingham coat of lightish colours, swansdown waistcoat, tow trousers, a good wool hat bound with leather, neat's leather shoes, almost new. Whoever takes said negro and delivers him to his master, or confines him in any gaol so that his master gets him again shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges paid by me.
EDMUND BURROUGHS
September 8th, 1802. 85-3w
Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey" - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- September 5, 1802
- Location of Event
- Hopewell (Mercer County)
- Primary Participants
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Prime (b. 1783)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02608
Role: Runaway
Age: 19
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Edmund Burroughs (1764-1830)
Verbatim description from source:
"a Negro man named PRIME, nineteen years of age, of a yellow colour, somewhat marked with the small pox, his right upper sore tooth broken off, he is five feet six or seven inches high" - Additional Participants
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Edmund Burroughs (1764-1830)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02607
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson