Runaway ad for David Lewis, by Henry Dusenbery
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- NJS-SRC-01364
- Source Type
- Runaway Advertisement
- Headline
- Thirty Dollars Reward
- Author
- Henry Dusenbery (1760-1825)
- Publication
- Trenton Federalist
- Place of Publication
- Trenton
- Date of Issue
- December 6, 1802
- Date Submitted
- November 27, 1802
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Thirty Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, living in New Hampton, Hunterdon county, West New Jersey on the 25th instant, an indentured servant Negro Man, who has near four years to serve named DAVE, otherwise calls himself David Lewis, near thirty years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, middling thin built, fond of drink, and can play on the violin -- had on when he absconded, a reddish colored coarse cashmere sailor's jacket with a scarlet cape, old olive colored thicket breeches, coarse dark stockings, and new coarse shoes. Whoever takes up said negro and confines him in any goal so that the owner gets him again, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges, if brought home, by
HENRY DUSENBERY.
November 27, 1802.
N.B. Said Negro Man absconded last winter, and was apprehended the last of June past, at one Carver's Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in which neighborhood he had been about six months. All persons are forbid harboring him at their peril. - Language
- English
- Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson
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