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Will- MD-FIDD7

Title: Will- MD-FIDD7
Identifier: MD-FIDD7
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Baltimore Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser
Date: October 3, 1780
Trade: Fiddler
gender: Male
Enslaver: Adam Reigart
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Adam Reigart
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: September 14, 1780.
RAN away, last night,
from the subscriber, living in the Borough of Lancaster, a mulatto slave named WILL, about 24 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, has a pleasant look, a good deal pock’d-mark’d, fond of talking, plays the fiddle, and is fond of it: Had on, and took with him, a white linen coatee, with narrow red edging, cloth-coloured velvet jacket, made best-fashion, ribb’d linen breeches, thread stockings, half-worn shoes, and tow linen shirt and trousers. Whoever takes up and secures said Mulatto, so that his master gets him again, shall have Eight Silver Dollars Reward, and if brought home, reasonable charges, paid by
ADAM REIGART.
N.B. All masters of vessels are forbid carrying him off at their peril.