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Title
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Evan- MD-BLA5
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Identifier
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MD-BLA5
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Blacksmith
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Source
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Annapolis Maryland Gazette
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Date
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June 15, 1786
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Trade
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Blacksmith
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Hilliary Wilson
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events
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Self-emancipated from Hilliary Wilson once before and went to Baltimore, Maryland and by the name John Rosher, Self-emancipated from Hilliary Wilson
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Notes
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Compiled from Lathan Windley
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Transcription
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SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
June 9, 1786.
RAN away from the subscriber, on the fourth instant, a young negro man of a bright yellow, about twenty-three years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, has a round face, high forehead, bending nose, small eyes, a small mouth, and white teeth, on his left arm above his elbow there is a scar where he was gored by an ox when he was young, his feet turn out when he walks, he is a blacksmith by trade and his name is EVAN, but may change it, as he went away once before and went to Mrs. Ball’s in Baltimore, and there passed for a free man by the name of John Rosher; he is an artful villain; he took with him three coats, viz. one striped holland, one mixed with pearl buttons, one blue cloth, one spotted velvet jacket, one buff ditto, one pair of white damask breeches, one pair of black bombasin ditto, one white shirt, one osnabrig ditto, one pair of shoes and buckles, stockings, handkerchief, an old white hat with old hat put round it for a band; he is very complaisant. Any person that will secure the said negro in any gaol shall receive the above reward, paid by
HILLIARY WILSON.
I do forewarn all persons from entertaining the said negro at their peril.
