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Twenty Dollars Reward [runaway ad for Elsy Murray]
1818-05-14
Bogart, Peter
Elsy Murray, a 20-year-old black woman, ran away from slaveholder Peter Bogart in Princeton on February 13, 1818. Elsy Murray could read well and had a pass for 2 days. She had a brother near Piscataway, and the slaveholder supposed that someone…