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Tom- MD-FIDD5

Title: Tom- MD-FIDD5
Identifier: MD-FIDD5
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Baltimore Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser
Date: November 10, 1778
Trade: Fiddler
gender: Male
Enslaver: George Fitzhugh
Home: Mr. Dulany's Plantation
events: 1. Self-emancipated from George Fitzhugh
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Fork of Gunpowder,
Baltimore County,
Nov. 9, 1778.
RAN away, on the 5th inst. from Mr. Dulany’s Plantation, in the Fork of Gunpowder, where the subscriber lives, a young well set Negro Man, named TOM, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, has a down look, and when spoke to, leers with his eyes which are large and full; he can play on the fiddle. Had on and took with him a pair of new brown cloth breeches, a woollen milled cap of the same colour, a country cloth jacket and breeches, patched with blue, two new osnabrug shirts, a pair of new shoes, well nailed in the heels and soals, and a pair of new milled stockings, of a very pale blue colour; he also has a blue broadcloth long skirted coat, a white ditto of same cut, a black waistcoat and dark green breeches, which it is supposed he has carried with him. Whoever will apprehend and deliver the said Negro to the subscriber, shall have the above reward, with reasonable charges, paid by
GEORGE FITZHUGH.