Runaway ad for Dick, by Kenneth Hankinson
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-01379
- Source Type
- Runaway Advertisement
- Headline
- Forty Dollars Reward
- Author
- Kenneth Hankinson
- Publication
- Trenton Federalist
- Place of Publication
- Trenton
- Date of Issue
- September 23, 1805
- Date Submitted
- September 16, 1805
- Page
- 3
- Description
- Note that the last line of the advertisement contains a typographical error. Although it says that it was submitted by the subscriber on "September 16th, 1804," the ad was, in fact, submitted and printed by the Trenton Federalist in September 1805. The issue of September 23, 1805, was the first issue where this ad appeared.
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Forty Dollar Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Freehold Township, Monmouth county, New-Jersey, on Sunday the 15th inst. A negro man named DICK, of about eighteen years of age, about five feet eight inches high, squints more with one eye than the other, speaks quick and lisps, pretty black, short hair -- can whistle and dance remarkably well, is very apt to wear his hat on one side of his head, his left knee joint will be found on examination not to bend as much as the other, caused by a gathering when a boy; he is very well dressed, and has a quantity of clothes with him. Whoever takes up said negro or secures him in any gaol in the United States and gives information thereof to his said master, shall be entitled to the above reward and all reasonable charges by Kenneth Hankinson.
September 16th, 1804. - Language
- English
- Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson
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