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024 Road Book A – November 19, 1790

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Entered this nineteenth day of November 1790 the following Copy of the manumission of a negro slave viz: We Peter Tappen & Tunis Tappen two of the Justices of of […]

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Manumission, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

023 Road Book A – February 9, 1786

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Entered this Ninth Day of Feby in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty Six A Bill of Sale Executed by Matthew Van Kuren of Poughkeepsie […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

017 Road Book A – May 19, 1773

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Dutchess County} So Enter’d and Recorded the NIneteenth Day of May in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven Hundred and seventy three a Bill of Sale Executed By John McBride […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

016 Road Book A – May 1, 1773

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Dutchess County {Entered & Registered this sixth Day of January in the year of Our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy three a Bill of Sale executed by Peter Harris of […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

002 Road Book A – October 23, 1769

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Dutchess County} Entered and Registered on the Twenty Third Day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and sixty Nine a Bill of Sale Executed […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

Country Journal – December 2, 1788 to February 10, 1789

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Ten Dollars Reward RUN-AWAY from the subscriber about the 8th Nov. instant, a NEGRO MAN named JAMES, about five feet ten inches high, 27 or 28 years of age, a […]

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Newspaper Advertisements, Runaway Ads

Country Journal – August 22, 1787 to September 12, 1787

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Sixteen Dollars Reward RUN away from the subscriber, li- ving in Somerset county, and state of New Jersey, on the 14th of Fe- bruary last, a negro named BEN, thirty […]

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Country Journal – September 16, 1788

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RUN-AWAY from the Sub- scriber at the New-Paltz in Ulster county, on the 19th of August last, a  NEGRO MAN named CAESAR, a- bout 19 years old, near six feet […]

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Country Journal – May 18, 1786 to June 1, 1786

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RUN-AWAY from the subscriber on the night of 15th of April last, a NEGRO MAN named Tom, about 48 years old, five feet four inches high, speaks somewhat broken, is […]

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Country Journal – April 18, 1787

April 14, 2013by Levi 1 Comment

RUN-AWAY from the subscribers living at Lower Salem in West- chester County and State of New York, on the night of the 8th instant, two Ne- gro men, one about […]

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