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Abel Franklin

Abel Franklin

Abel Franklin is a slave-owning person, who was in Block-Island, Rhode Island in 1771. He enslaved Charles Mott.

RAN AWAY, from me the Subscriber, of Block-Island

  • Runaway
  • September 23, 1771
  • RAN AWAY, from me the Subscriber, of Block-Island, the 23d of this Inst. Sept. A Mustee SLAVE named TIMOTHY, about 18 or 19 years of Age, about 5 Feet 7 Inches high a strait, well built Fellow, of a Yellow Complexion; he had on, when he went away, an old dark-coloured Jacket, and Trowsers; said F…

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RAN AWAY, from me the Subscriber, of Block-Island. (1771). In The Newport Mercury. America’s Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc?p=ARDX&docref=image/v2%3A106AD2C0F76EDF48%40EANX-107026A893386900%402368177-107026A9DCD925A8%407 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.] Courtesy American Antiquarian Society; accessed through Readex/NewsBank

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