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Title
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Charles Gamby- MD-CAR18
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Identifier
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MD-CAR18
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenter
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Source
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Baltimore Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser
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Date
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December 9, 1783
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Trade
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Carpenter
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Denton Jacques
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from Denton Jacques
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Notes
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Compiled from Lathan Windley
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Transcription
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Fort-Frederick Furnace,
Dec. 4, 1783.
Forty-five Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY, from Parkead Forge, in Washington County, in August last, a country-born Negro Man named CHARLES GAMBY , about 5 feet 9 inches high, complexion inclined to the yellow, a remarkable long head, and the tip of one of his ears cut off; the cloathing he took with him was, country linen shirt and trousers, died brown linsey jacket; he is a very artful, sensible Fellow, and capable of changing his name or dress; he can work a little at the carpenter’s business, having been employed as a forge carpenter, about 50 years of age, fond of tobacco, and subject to get drunk, and when so, pretends to great knowledge in the scriptures.
Negro JESS, went away about the 17th of October, a remarkable stout, strong Fellow, with large feet, and stoops a little in walking; his cloathing the same as Charles’s, but he stole others before he went off; born at Oxford, on the Eastern Shore, about 30 years of age. THIRTY DOLLARS, for securing Charles Gamby, in any gaol in the United States, and FIFTEEN for Jess, besides reasonable charges, if brought home.
DENTON JACQUES, and CO.
N.B. Charles had a discharge with him, of one Thomas Townshend, and may assume that name. On a former trip he took the name of Daniel Rogers.
