Image: Colonel Tye Runaway Ad

Description: Runaway ad for a slave named Titus, later to be known as Colonel Tye, fighting for the Crown during the American Revolutionary War. THREE POUNDS Reward. RUN away from the fubfcriber, living in Shrewfbury, in the county of Monmouth, New-Jerfey, a NEGROE man, named TITUS, but may probably change his name; he is about 21 years of age, not very black, near 6 feet high; had on a grey homefpun coat, brown breeches, blue and white ftockings, and took with him a wallet, drawn up at one end with a ftring, in which was a quantity of clothes. Whoever takes up faid Negroe, and fecures him in any goal, or brings him to me, fhall be entitled to the above reward of Three Pounds proc. and all reafonable charges, paid by Nov. 8, 1775. JOHN CORLIS. (With corrections for typography (f replaced by s): THREE POUNDS Reward. RUN away from the subscriber, living in Shrewsbury, in the county of Monmouth, New-Jersey, a NEGROE man, named TITUS, but may probably change his name; he is about 21 years of age, not very black, near 6 feet high; had on a grey homespun coat, brown breeches, blue and white stockings, and took with him a wallet, drawn up at one end with a string, in which was a quantity of clothes. Whoever takes up said Negroe, and secures him in any goal, or brings him to me, shall be entitled to the above reward of Three Pounds proc. and all reasonable charges, paid by Nov. 8, 1775. JOHN CORLIS.)
Title: Colonel Tye Runaway Ad
Credit: PBS "Africans in America" Resource Bank, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h1b.html
Author: John Corlis, slave owner
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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