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Caesar- MD-CAR4, MD-COO2

Title: Caesar- MD-CAR4, MD-COO2
Identifier: MD-CAR4, MD-COO2
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenter, Cooper
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: November 14, 1782
Trade: Carpenter, Cooper
gender: Male
Enslaver: Richard Cowman
Home: Enslaver's Plantation
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Richard Cowman
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: ONE HUNDRED SPANISH DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber’s plantation, in Montgomery county, the 6th day of February last, a NEGRO MAN, named CAESAR, about thirty years of age, five feet five or six inches high, and well made, of a yellow complexion; he is an artful designing fellow, and I expect he will endeavour to impose himself on strangers as a free man, and probably may have got a pass as such. He understands something of the carpenters and coopers business. I apprehend his design was, when he ran away, to join, as a recruit, either the enemy or the American army. Had on, when he went away, a cotton jacket and breeches, tow linen shirt, coarse shoes and stockings, and a tolerable good hat. Whoever takes up the said negro, and delivers him to me, at West-river, in Anne-Arundel county, near Annapolis, or secures him so that I may get him again shall, if taken up and secured in this state, receive fifty dollars, and if out of the state of Maryland the above reward, paid by
RICHARD COWMAN.