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30x30in. (76.2×76.2cm.) Archival pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Matt BARYTA. Ed. of 10, 2 AP
Work signed and numbered, En Verso.
“Ten Dollars Reward,
RUN-away last Thursday from the Subscriber, at Newark, a certain Negro Fellow named Jack, about 25 years old, a square well-built Fellow, pretty black, Guiney born, and spoke bad English: He took with him several Sorts of Cloths, his Master’s Gun, and a Grenadier’s Sword, with Brass Mountings: He is supposed to have had on a good Beaver Hat cocked in the Fashion, a light coloured fine Cloth.jacket, without Sleeves, and may wear a Blanket Coat, he has a Scar right down his Forehead to his Nose, his country Mark, can handle a File, and understands the Brass Founder’s Business. Whoever takes up the said Fellow, and delivers him to Mrs. Wilkins, near Ogden’s Furnace, in Newark, shall have the above reward; or in New-York, to JACOB WILKINS.”
-New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, June 25, 1776.
New Jersey State Library Runaway Slave Database
30x30in. (76.2×76.2cm.) Archival pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Matt BARYTA. Ed. of 10, 2 AP
Work signed and numbered, En Verso.
“Ten Dollars Reward,
RUN-away last Thursday from the Subscriber, at Newark, a certain Negro Fellow named Jack, about 25 years old, a square well-built Fellow, pretty black, Guiney born, and spoke bad English: He took with him several Sorts of Cloths, his Master’s Gun, and a Grenadier’s Sword, with Brass Mountings: He is supposed to have had on a good Beaver Hat cocked in the Fashion, a light coloured fine Cloth.jacket, without Sleeves, and may wear a Blanket Coat, he has a Scar right down his Forehead to his Nose, his country Mark, can handle a File, and understands the Brass Founder’s Business. Whoever takes up the said Fellow, and delivers him to Mrs. Wilkins, near Ogden’s Furnace, in Newark, shall have the above reward; or in New-York, to JACOB WILKINS.”
-New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, June 25, 1776.
New Jersey State Library Runaway Slave Database