Citation - Connecticut Courant: 1777.05.12

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Index Entry Caesar, runaway Negro, took Watts's Psalms and Hymns [t] 
Location Springfield 
Citation
CC-H.777.018
12 May 1777:43 (642)
Ran away from the subscriber a Negro man named Caesar
upwards of five feet high, about 23 years old, took with
him, one brown coat, one blue ditto, one brown waistcoat,
three pair of stockings, four shirts, two pair of shoes, a
pair of silver shoe buckles, two pair of leather breeches,
two woolen blankets, and one felt hat also a bible and
Watts's Psalms and Hymns. Whoever will secure and return
said servant to his master, shall have six dollars reward,
and all necessary charges paid, by [signed] Japhet Chapin.
Springfield, April 16, 1777.  N.B. All officers in the army
and all other persons are cautioned not to encourage said
Caesars absence from him Master.


Generic Title Connecticut Courant 
Date 1777.05.12 
Publisher Watson, Ebenezer 
City, State Hartford, CT 
Year 1777 
Bibliography B0012833
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