Cato- MD-FORG6

Item

Title
Cato- MD-FORG6
Identifier
MD-FORG6
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Forgeman
Source
Baltimore Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser
Date
November 7, 1788
Trade
Forgeman
Enslaver
Henry Howard
Events
1. Self-emancipated from Henry Howard
Home
Ridgely's Forges
Notes
Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription
Eight Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY, from Ridgely’s Forges, on the Great Falls of Gunpowder, and about 15 miles from Baltimore-Town, on the great road leading to Philadelphia, on the 30th day of September last, a dark Mulatto Slave, named CATO, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high; he is a straight well-built fellow, his veins are remarkably high, and appear very plain on his legs and arms, his voice is soft, his language plain and intelligible; he is not very fond of strong liquor, although he has been in the army several campaigns during the late war. He is a regular-bred forgeman and finer, and worked at Antietam Forge several years, where he acquired a general acquaintance, also, at Frederick and Hagar’s-Town, and is supposed to be sculking about some of those places. He went off in company with a Mulatto Slave, named DICK, the property of Mr. William Goodwin, and DICK is since taken at the Hollow, not far from Hagar’s-Town; his clothes are unknown, as he ran off with only an oznaburg shirt, and one pair trousers. Whoever takes up said Slave, and confines him in any gaol, so that I get him again, shall be entitled to the above reward, and all reasonable charges if brought home, paid by
HENRY HOWARD.
Ridgely’s Forges, November 5, 1788.
gender
Male