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Twenty Dollars Reward [runaway ad for Peat]
Vanderveer, Garret G.
1814-01-20
Peat, a 25-year-old black man, ran away from slaveholder Garret G. Vanderveer, living within 6 miles of Monmouth Court House (in present-day Freehold, Monmouth County). Peat escaped on December 8, 1813. Garret G. Vanderveer offers a reward of $20 for…
Notice [pickup notice for Tom and Frank]
Bonnington, Joseph
1825-10-26
Two black men, Tom and Frank, were captured as suspected runaways on October 10, 1825, and confined to the Perth Amboy jail.
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Run away from Philip Livingston [unnamed African man]
Livingston, Philip
1752-11-06
Slaveholder and slave trader Philip Livingston offers a reward of three dollars for the capture of an African man who escaped from Livingston in New…