Thursday, August 20, 2020

Missing Person Notice for Cornelius Sinclair, an 11 Year Old Coloured Boy, August 13, 1825


Boy Lost.

The Subscriber’s son, Cornelius Sinclair, a coloured Boy, about 11 years old, left his friends yesterday, and as he had no cause, and never before absented himself, it is feared he has been seduced away, by some evil minded person; he is a very dark mulatto, pretty stout built, thin long fingers, his eyes weak, left eye smaller than the right.  Any person hearing of him, will confer a favour on his afflicted parent, by giving information to Wiggin & Whitney, No. 19 South Front-street, and all persons are forbid harbouring him under penalty of the law.

JOSEPH SINCLAIR.                       
Crab-street, below the old Theatre.
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SOURCE: Richard Bell, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, p. 8, which cites its original source material as being from Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, August 13, 1825.

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