BCDA (Objects)

Title

Sawney - GA-CAR7

Identifier

GA-CAR7

Subject

African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters

Source

Georgia Gazette

Date

October 4, 1775

Trade

Carpenter

gender

Male

Enslaver

Joseph Cannon

Home

Little-Ogeechee

events

1. Self-emancipated from Joseph Cannon

Transcription

RUN AWAY from the subscriber about one month past, A NEGROE FELLOW, named WILL, by trade a cooper, about five feet six inches high, of the Guinea Country, slim make, bow-legged, with a large scar uner his chin. ANOTHER FELLOW, named ISAAC, a squarer and sawyer, about five feet eight inches high, of the Guinea Country, and much knock-knee'd. ANOTHER FELLOW, named WAPPING, about six feet high, very stout and lusty, bow-legged, and much marked on the face, shoulder, and bac, with his country marks. ANOTHER FELLOW, named PRIMUS, a field Negroe, about five feet seven inches high, of the Guinea Country, a stout well-proportioned fellow, with a blemish in one eye. ANOTHER FELLOW, named ISHMAEL, a field Negroe, about five feet seven inches high, of the Guinea Country, stout made, bow-legged an having one finger cut off. A BOY, named SAWNEY, country born, about five feet high, very active and well made, an unerstands part of a carpenter's business. A WENCH, named PENDA, about twenty-one years of age, about five feet six inches high, of the Guinea Country, well proportioned, and having country marks on her face. CHLOE, a girl, about fourteen years of age, of the Guinea Country, stout and well made. I do hereby offer a reward of twenty shilling sterling for each of the above Negroes, over and above what the law allows, to any person or persons who will take up and deliver them, or any of them, to Mr. James Robertson in Savannah, or to the Warden of the Work-House there; and I do hereby promise a reward of ten pounds sterling to any person or persons giving information of all or any white person or persons, to be paid upon the conviction of the offender or offenders; and a reward of forty shillings if harboured and entertained by any Negroe or Negroes, to be paid in like manner upon conviction. JOSEPH CANNON. Savannah, 2d October, 1775. The above Negroes are most of them well known about the district of Little-Ogeechee.