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40x30in. (101.6x76.2cm.) 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
40x30in. (101.6x76.2cm.) 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