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Robbin

Robbin

Robbin is an unfree person, with age given as about 28, described as Black, who was in Dunstable, Massachusetts in 1748. He was a servant of Eleazer Tyng and escaped from Eleazer Tyng.

RUN away from his Master Eleazer Tyng, Esq

  • Runaway
  • May 26, 1748
  • RUN away from his Master Eleazer Tyng, Esq; at Dunstable, on the 26th May past, a Negro Man Servant call'd Robbin, almost the Complexion of an Indian, short thick square shoulder'd Fellow, a very short Neck, and thick Legs, about 28 Years old, talks good English, can read and write, and plays on …

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RUN away from his Master Eleazer Tyng, Esq. (1748). In New-York Gazette. America’s Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc?p=ARDX&docref=image/v2%3A10D34AE6B0969558%40EANX-10D809242AA148C8%402359696-10D809245AB3F7D0%402-10D80924C5780640 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.] Courtesy American Antiquarian Society; accessed through Readex/NewsBank

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