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Simon- MD-BLA4

Title: Simon- MD-BLA4
Identifier: MD-BLA4
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Blacksmith
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: May 18, 1786
Trade: Blacksmith
gender: Male
Enslaver: Dennis Magruder
events: Previously enslaved by Richard Watkins, Self-emancipated from Dennis Magruder
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
Upper Marborough,
May 10, 1786.
WENT away from the subscriber, about the first of March last, a yellow man named SIMON*, about five feet eleven inches high, twenty eight years of age, carries himself pretty erect, and of mild insinuating manners; had on a jacket with sleeves, and overalls of mixed bearskin, a great coat of Bath coating nearly of a lead colour, with metal buttons, and faced with red baize; he was lately sold as a blacksmith by Mr. Richard Watkins, near South river church; it is probable he may be in that neighbourhood, or about Annapolis, as Mr. Samuel Chase has his wife. The above reward will be given to any person delivering said fellow to his master, by
DENNIS MAGRUDER.