Citation - Connecticut Courant: 1782.10.22

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Index Entry Dunning, Elias, owner of runaway Negro named Grig who plays fife 
Location Bethlem 
Citation
CC-H.782.058
22 Oct 1782:33 (926)
On the night of the 8th instant, run away from the
subscribers, four Negro men one named Grig and one Jack;
Grig about 21 years of age and Jack about 19, about 5 feet
one or two inches high, Grig has a scar on his left cheek
and neck occasioned by the Kings evil, carried with him one
old m[ ]t coloured, great coat, one b[  ]t broadcloth do.
one scarlet jacket, one white do. one pair of leather
breeches, one pair white linen do. one ruffled and one plain
Holland shirt, two check do. two woolen do. one pair of
check trowser, one pair of French cut silver shoe buckles
and knee do. two old blue surtouts twiled coating, one
Barcelona handkerchief, three pair of stockings, and one
fife. . . [15 lines] [signed] Elias Dunning, Ebenezer
Guernsey, Gideon Martin, Solomon Marsh.  Bethlem, October 9,
1782. 


Generic Title Connecticut Courant 
Date 1782.10.22 
Publisher Hudson & Goodwin 
City, State Hartford, CT 
Year 1782 
Bibliography B0013117
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