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Title
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Dick - NY-BAKE15, NY-BUTL1
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Identifier
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NY-BAKE15, NY-BUTL1
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury #1344
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Date
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July 28, 1777
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Trade
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Baker, Butler
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Francis Conihane
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Home
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No. 999 Peck’s Slip
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Home Location
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Manhattan, New York
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Events
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1. Formerly enslaved in St. Kitts
2. Self-emancipated from Francis Conihane
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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Pretends to be Free #437
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Transcription
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Twenty Dollars Reward. RUN-away on the 26th of March, from Francis Conihane, living at Peck’s-Slip, No. 999, a negro fellow named DICK, about 5 feet 6 inches, a baker by trade, and has followed that business with one Naugle, near Kingsbridge, and has waited a while on a gentleman in the Queen’s Rangers ; speaks thick, has a mark over one of his eyes, and a scar on his breast; was born in St. Kitts, walks sometimes as if he was lame, and is troubled a little with the rheumaticks. Took with him a dark gray coat and jacket, with white and check shirts, sundry strip’d trowsers, and a red and white striped jacket. It is supposed he keeps about Kingsbridge. Whoever brings him to his said master shall be entitled to the above reward.
N.B. All persons are forewarned not to harbour said fellow, at their peril.
