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Title	1774, Run away notice of Port Royal of New Castle, N.Y.
Creator	Furniss, Robert
Date.Original	1774-12-09
Publisher.Original	New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, December 12, 1774
Description	Notice dated December 9, 1774 offering a 5 dollar reward for the return of a 41 year old slaved named Port Royal.
Subject.TGM	Slavery Fugitive slaves Clippings
Subject.Local	Furniss family
Personal Name	Port Royal (slave of Robert Furniss) Furniss, Robert
Location	Port Royal Philadelphia New York
HRVH Topic	African Americans
Language	eng
Format.Original	newspaper clipping from microfilm
Resource Type	Text
Resource Identifier	Dec12_1774_FiveDollarsReward.jpg
Publisher.Digital	Historic Huguenot Street
Date.Digital	2007
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Exhibit Homepage	http://www.hrvh.org/exhibit/aa07
Digital.Collection	African American Presence in the Hudson Valley
Transcript	New-Castle, December 9, 1774. FIVE DOLLARS Reward. RUN away from the subscriber the fifth instant, a Negro man named Port-Royal, forty-one years of age, about five feet seven inches high, a comely well looking man, of good behavior, and pretty black, not given to liquor, appears religious, can read and write: Had on a good beaver hat, with silk lining, supposed to be green; a blue or blue and red linen cap, but mostly wore a white one, which he had with him. Took with him a surtout coat of a reddish cinnamon colour, a light coloured cloth jacket, a swanskin ditto, stained with tar, a good white shirt, buckskin breeches, new pale blue ribb'd stockings, and old carved plated buckles. He came from Philadelphia in Mr. Skillman's stage wagon to New-York, on Tuesday last. Whoever secures the said Negro so as his master may have him again, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges by applying to Richard Sauce, living in New York, near the Fly-Market, or to the subscriber, ROBERT FURNISS. N. B. He says he is a free man, and once belonged to Mr. Israel Pemberton, in Philadelphia, but it is not true. He pretends to be by trade a brush-maker, which he has done something at.
Metadata Creator	Stessin-Cohn, Susan

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