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Title
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Charles - GA-CAR18
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Identifier
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GA-CAR18
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
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Source
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Gazette of the State of Georgia
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Date
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January 22, 1784
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Trade
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Jobbing Carpenter
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Thomas Hutson
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Home
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Col. Deveaux's plantation on the Savannah River
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events
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1. Hired out as a jobbing carpenter
2. Passed as free
3. Self-emancipated from Thomas Hutson
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Transcription
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Ten Guineas Reward. NOW absent from me, A NEGRO MAN, named CHARLES, of a yellow complexion, being of the Mestizoe Breed, about five feet seven or eight inches high, very square built, well known in and about Savannah, being employed there as a jobbing carpenter for upwards of four years past, during which time he has endeavoured to pass for a free person. He was captured about December, 1778, in a schooner, on her way to Charleston, and carried to St. Augustine, from whence he immediately made his escape to Savannah, where, and in its vicinity, he has been harboured ever since, particularly, as I have been informed, at Col. Deveaux's plantation on Savannah river, where he has had, a wife. Some attempts having been made to apprehend him at the last mentioned place, I am informed that he has removed his quarters from thence to Mrs. Bulloch's plantation at Skidaway. The above reward , besides reasonable charges, will be paid to any person who will deliver the said Negro man Charles to me at my plantation near Pocotaligo in South Carolina. Thomas Hutson. Decemebr 24, 1783.
