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Silas Parvin

Silas Parvin

Silas Parvin is a slave-owning person, who was in Bridgeton, New Jersey in 1747. He enslaved Sam.

Run away, on the 20th of September last, from Cohansie Bridge

  • Runaway
  • September 20, 1747
  • Run away, on the 20th of September last, from Cohansie Bridge, a very big Negroe man, named Sampson, about 50 years of age, has some Indian blood in him, is hip-shot, and goes very lame; he has taken his son with him, a boy about 12 or 14 years of age, named Sam; he was born of an Indian woman, a…

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Run away, on the 20th of September last, from Cohansie Bridge. (1747). In Pennsylvania Gazette (p. 7). Benjamin Franklin; America’s Historical Newspapers . https://infoweb-newsbank-com.revproxy.brown.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&t=pubname%3A10D34C656629FD30%21Pennsylvania%2BGazette/year%3A1747%211747/mody%3A1001%211001&sort=YMD_date%3AA&fld-base-0=alltext&val-base-0=bridge&docref=image/v2%3A10D34C656629FD30%40EANX-10D80B838967DA28%402359412-10D80B83C86FBE88%402-10D80B84A17B55B8%40Advertisement&firsthit=yes [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.]

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