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Twenty Dollars Reward [runaway ad for Peat]

1814-01-20
Vanderveer, Garret G.

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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]

1825-10-26
Bonnington, Joseph

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Two black men, Tom and Frank, were captured as suspected runaways on October 10, 1825, and confined to the Perth Amboy jail.