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Evins- MD-BLA2

Title: Evins- MD-BLA2
Identifier: MD-BLA2
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Blacksmith
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: November 6, 1783
Trade: Blacksmith
gender: Male
Enslaver: Hillery Wilson
events: Hired out to William Edmonds to learn the trade of Blacksmith, Self-emancipated from Hillery Wilson and William Edmonds
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: Calvert county,
October 15, 1783.
RAN away from the subscriber, living in Calvert county, near Hunting-town, a yellow slave named EVINS, about 19 years of age, 4 feet 9 or 10 inches high, with a broad bending face; he had on an old osnabrig shirt and trousers, and took with him a new osnabrig shirt and trousers, and a new felt hat; he is the real property of Mr. Hillery Wilson, of Calvert county, but he put him to me to learn the trade of a blacksmith, and has been with me near four years. Whoever takes up the said slave, and secures him so that I get him again, shall receive four dollars reward, and all reasonable charges if brought home, paid by
WILLIAM EDMONDS, blacksmith.