Chapter 6: Venture Gets Married and Runs Away
July 17, 2019Chapter 7: A New Owner
July 17, 2019page 29
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ADVERTISING FOR RUNAWAYS
George Mumford placed a notice on April 1, 1754 in at least one newspaper advertising for the return of “Four men servants, a white man and three [black men], who hath taken a large two-mast boat, … and a large white pine canoe…” He identified them as Joseph Heday, Fortune, Venture, and Isaac. Fortune and Isaac were also enslaved. Mumford offered “20 pounds New-York currency reward and all reasonable charges paid” for their return.
Primary Source
See the ad at Runaway Connecticut, a project of Wesleyan University
wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/runawayct/items/show/5482go to next page, chapter 7