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Bob- MD-BLA6

Title: Bob- MD-BLA6
Identifier: MD-BLA6
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Blacksmith
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: October 11, 1787
Trade: Blacksmith
gender: Male
Enslaver: Walter Stone
events: Formerly enslaved by Walter Pye, Self-emancipated from Walter Stone
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
Port-Tobacco,
October 3, 1787.
RAN away some days ago, Negro BOB, a blacksmith by trade, about 38 years old, a strong bony dark mulatto, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, his cloathing unknown, he generally ties his hair behind; he lately belonged to Mr. Walter Pye, and was seen last Sunday at Piscataway; he has a forged pass. Whoever secures the said slave, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward.
WALTER STONE.