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Poughkeepsie Journal – January 26, 1790

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From the Albany Gazette. Half-Moon, Jan. 11, 1790. Gentlemen, By inserting the following in your next paper, you will oblige a friend and customer. A singular LAW CASE. A Young […]

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Poughkeepsie Journal – November 17, 1791

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LITCHFIELD, Oct. 19. We learn from Albany, that a few days since, a Negro servant was wan- tonly shot thro’the neck, and killed, by direction of his inhuman master, at the […]

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Poughkeepsie Journal – May 15, 1790

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POUGHKEEPSIE, May 15 In the Supreme Court of this state held at New-York last week, seve- ral criminals were tried, and sen- tenced as follows.      William Glover, convicted […]

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Litchfield Monitor – October 21, 1801

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POUGHKEEPSIE, October 6. Tuesday last the Circuit Court finished their session in this town, during which the following persons were convicted, and received sentence.      William Miller, for Burglary, […]

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Albany Register – November 24, 1812

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RAN AWAY  FROM the subscriber, in the month of Sep- tember, A NEGRO WENCH named FAN, aged thirty years, five feet eight or nine inches high, stout built, took with […]

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Poughkeepsie Journal – March 22, 1797

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SIXPENCE REWARD.  Phebe Milbert, an indented black servant girl, has absented herself from my service: I therefore forewarn all persons against harboring, or in any way providing for her. A […]

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Country Journal – June 3, 1788

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Ten Dollars Reward RUN AWAY from the Subscriber li- ving in Orange county near Go- shen, on the 13th instant, a likely NE- GRO Fellow named PRIME, about  eighteen years […]

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Ten Dollars Reward. CJ?

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Ten Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY on the night of the 24th in- stant, from the subscriber, living at Peeks Kill in Westchester county, a NEGRO MAN named Lew, 24 years […]

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Poughkeepsie Journal – November 3, 1791 to November 24, 1791

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Ten Dollars reward. RUN-AWAY from the subscriber on Tuesday evening last, a Ne- gro Man named Robert, 23 years old, about five feet ten inches high, speaks good English, is […]

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Poughkeepsie Journal – April 27, 1790 to May 11, 1790

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Ten Dollars Reward.  (TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD?) Ran-Away from the subscriber, living in Goshen, Orange coun- ty, and state of New-York, a negro Man named CHARLES, about thirty years old, 5 feet […]

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