Stolen Mare
June 14, 1780 Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)Newspaper advertisement for a stolen horse, believed to have been taken by a runaway slave.
Newspaper
New Jersey Gazette
Place of Publication
Trenton, NJ
Ad Author(s)
Samuel Stanhope Smith
Ad Subject(s)
Mare
Ad Type
Runaway
Price
600 for slave and horse (300 each)
Did You Know...?Most of Princeton's founding trustees bought, sold, traded, or inherited enslaved people.
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