Browse Items (1 total)

  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Rahway, Union County, NJ"

Fifty Dollars Reward [runaway ad for Elisha]

1816-02-08
Farmer, George

1816-02-08 Fifty Dollars Reward.jpg
Elisha, a black man, ran away from slaveholder George Farmer on January 27, 1816. Elisha was 21 years old. George Farmer had purchased Elisha on September 9, 1815, from John Tucker of Rahway, while Elisha was in jail. George Farmer offers a reward of…