1807-08-16 Freedom Seeking: Cuffee
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01172
- Source
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Runaway ad for Cuffee, by Lucas Hoagland
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Runaway ad for Cuffee, by Lucas Hoagland, "Thirty Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, August 24, 1807, p. 3.
- Event Description
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On August 16, 1807, a Black young man named Cuffee, aged about 18 or 19 years old, ran away from his enslaver Lucas Hoagland of Griggstown, Somerset County, New Jersey.
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Transcript of the source document:
"Thirty Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber living at Grigg's Town, Somerset county, N. J on the 16th instant, a NEGRO BOY, named Cuffee, about 18 or 19 years of age, thick set, very black, slow of speech and commonly very still; had on when he went away, an old castor hat, grey linsey coat, homespun striped pantaloons, shoes and coarse shirt; had holes in his ears for the purpose of wearing ear rings. Whoever will take up said Negro, and secure him in any goal in the state of New Jersey, shall receive the above reward, or 35 dollars if delivered to his master, and all reasonable charges.
Lucas Hoagland.
Somerset, NJ. August 21, 1807" - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- August 16, 1807
- Location of Event
- Griggstown
- Primary Participants
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Cuffee (b. 1788)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02761
Role: Runaway
Age: 19
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Lucas Hoagland
Verbatim description from source:
"NEGRO BOY, named Cuffee, about 18 or 19 years of age, thick set, very black, slow of speech and commonly very still" - Additional Participants
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Lucas Hoagland
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02714
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker