BCDA (Objects) · Jack Hutton - MD-CAR1, MD-COO1, MD-PLA1

Jack Hutton - MD-CAR1, MD-COO1, MD-PLA1

Title: Jack Hutton - MD-CAR1, MD-COO1, MD-PLA1
Identifier: MD-CAR1, MD-COO1, MD-PLA1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenter, Cooper, Plasterer
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: August 14, 1777
Trade: Carpenter, Cooper, Plasterer
gender: Male
Enslaver: John Weems
events: 1. Self-emancipated from John Weems
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: RAN away from the subscriber, living in Anne-Arundel county, near Herring-creek church, some time in March last, a negro man, named Jack, commonly called Jack Hutton, near 30 years of age, about 5 feet 10 inches high; he is a good carpenter, cooper, and plaisterer; he went away with a mulatto woman belonging to Miss Mary Best, near Rock-creek; carried with him a mouse-coloured mare, with foal, branded, M F, four white feet and a star. Whoever takes up said negro, and secures him, so that I get him again, shall have sixteen dollars, and four for the mare.
JOHN WEEMS.