1798-04-10 Freedom Seeking: Han, Name Unrecorded
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01183
- Source
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Runaway ad for Han and her baby, by Isaac Van Saun
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Runaway ad for Han and her baby, by Isaac Van Saun, "TEN DOLLARS REWARD.," Centinel of Freedom, April 24, 1798, p. 3.
- Event Description
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On April 10, 1798, a 21-year-old Black woman named Han ran away from her enslaver Isaac Van Saun. Han took her 9-month-old baby with her when she escaped. She ran away from Preakness, which is in present-day Wayne township, Passaic County (but was then part of Bergen County).
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Transcript of the source document:
"TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN-AWAY from the Subscriber, on Tuesday the 10th day of April, a Negro Wench, named HAN, and her child. The wench is about 21 years of age, and the child nine months. Whoever will take up the said wench and child, and secure them, shall have the above reward.
ISAAC VAN SAUN.
Pragness (Bergen County) }
April 23, 1798. }
8a-3w.p." - Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- April 10, 1798
- Location of Event
- Preakness, Wayne
- Primary Participants
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Han
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02770
Role: Runaway
Age: 21
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isaac Van Saun
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro Wench, named HAN; The wench is about 21 years of age"Name Unrecorded (b. 1797) {child of Han}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02771
Role: Runaway
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isaac Van Saun
Verbatim description from source:
"the child [is] nine months" - Additional Participants
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Isaac Van Saun
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02769
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker