1805-07-14 Freedom Seeking: Dick
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01140
- Source
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Runaway ad for Dick, by William Todd
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Runaway ad for Dick, by William Todd, "Ten Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, July 22, 1805.
- Event Description
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Dick ran away his enslaver William Todd of Bedminster in Somerset County, NJ, on Sunday July 14, 1805. Todd published a a runaway ad for Dick, which mentioned that Dick had been previously enslaved by Dr. Blatchley in Morris County and David Frazer in Lebanon, Hunterdon County.
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Transcript of the source document:
"Ten Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, on Sunday the 14th instant, a Negro man named DICK about twenty one years of age, very black and somewhat pitted with the small pox in his face, about five feet seven or eight inches high and has a down look. Had on when he went away, a pair of coarse homespun copperas striped trousers, coarse shirt, swansdown vest, and a new pair of coarse shoes-- took along with him a pair of nankeen pantaloons, fine shirt and a dark mixed broadcloth coat; he was born in Morris county at Dr. Blatchley's and has lived a long time with David Frazer, Esq. at Lebanon. Whoever will take up the said negro, and secure him in any gaol so that the subscriber may get him, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges paid.
WILLIAM TODD.
Bedminster, Somerset County,
July 16, 1805.
34-3w" - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- July 14, 1805
- Location of Event
- Bedminster
- Primary Participants
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Dick (b. 1784)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02669
Role: Runaway
Age: 21
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Todd
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro man named DICK about twenty one years of age, very black and somewhat pitted with the small pox in his face, about five feet seven or eight inches high and has a down look" - Additional Participants
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William Todd
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02670
Role: Enslaver, AdvertiserDr. Blatchley
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02687
Role: Former Enslaver MentionedDavid Frazer
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02688
Role: Former Enslaver Mentioned - Record Contributor
- Xandria McKinley
- Jesse Bayker