1802-02 Capture: Harry
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01212
- Source
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Runaway ad for Harry, by Lambert DeCamp (Centinel of Freedom)
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Runaway ad for Harry, by Lambert DeCamp
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Runaway ad for Harry, by Lambert DeCamp, "TEN DOLLARS REWARD," Centinel of Freedom, January 12, 1802, p. 3.
Runaway ad for Harry, by Lambert DeCamp, "TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD," Centinel of Freedom, August 17, 1802, p. 3. - Event Description
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Following his escape from enslaver Lambert DeCamp in early January 1802, a Black man named Harry was evidently apprehended and returned to DeCamp's household in the Bridgetown area of Rahway. Exactly when and where Harry was captured is uncertain.
This capture event is inferred from the runaway ads that document two separate escape attempts by Harry in January 1802 and then later in June 1802. See the related freedom seeking events for more details about Harry's escapes. - Event Type
- Capture
- Date
- February 1802 – May 1802
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Location of Event
- Bridgetown, Rahway
- Preceding Event
- 1802-01-02 Freedom Seeking: Harry
- Following Event
- 1802-06-27 Freedom Seeking: Harry
- Primary Participants
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Harry (b. 1781)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01975
Role: Captured Person
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Lambert DeCamp (1733-1814)
Verbatim description from source:
"NEGRO MAN, named HARRY, about 21 years of age, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, stout made, middling dark complexion, with a scar on his left hand a little back of his thumb, occasioned by inoculation for the small pox" - Additional Participants
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Lambert DeCamp (1733-1814)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01974
Role: Enslaver, Captor - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker