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Abraham

Abraham

Abraham is an unfree person, with age given as forty five years, described as Black, who was in Manor of Pelham, New York in 1777. He had a child, was the spouse of Moll, was enslaved by Thomas Pell, escaped from Thomas Pell and escaped with a companion.

FIVE POUNDS Reward.

  • Runaway
  • April 15, 1777
  • FIVE POUNDS Reward.

    RUN-away from the subscriber, on Tuesday the 15th of April last, a negro man, of a yellow complexion, part Indian, well set, walks with his knees wide apart, flat nose, about five feet eight or ten inches high, forty five years of age, or thereabouts, goes by the name o…

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FIVE POUNDS Reward. (1777). In The New-York Gazette. America’s Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-NB&docref=image/v2%3A10DBEBC4F3862B98%40EANX-NB-10DF7C2EF29CD920%402370277-10DF7C2F5C6E8C98%402-10DF7C3083FAD450 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.]

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