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Title
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Tom- MD-HCAR1
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Identifier
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MD-HCAR1
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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Baltimore Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser
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Date
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June 5, 1787
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Trade
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House Carpenter
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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William Brogden
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from William Brogden
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Notes
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Compiled from Lathan Windley
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Transcription
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Baltimore Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser,June 5, 1787.
Ten Pounds Reward.
MISSING, since Sunday last, and supposed to be endeavouring to make their escape, Two Negro Fellows, the property of the subscriber. TOM, a dark Mulatto, by trade a house-carpenter, 40 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, slender made, has a scar in his forehead about an inch long, his head very wooly and has lately had it cut and turned up before; he took with him sundry cloathing, consisting of the following: One round blue jacket lined with white, a pair of mixed coloured worsted stockings, a pair of white cloth breeches with white metal buttons, a pair of white yarn stockings, a dark cotton coat with buttons covered with the same, one white linen and one oznaburg shirt, a pair of Welch cotton trousers dyed brown and mended on each knee with white cotton, a round hat, and on it a band of white twine or bobbin, a large blue fearnought jacket, a black neck-cloth, a pair of black and a pair of Negro shoes, large plated shoe-buckles, and a long osnaburg wallet; he took with him carpenters’ and joiners’ tools, consisting of saws, plains, augers, chisels, and several other kinds, some of which have been marked with a stamping iron, WB, connected; I have reason to believe they have been disposed of in Annapolis. YORK, a very black fellow, 45 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, his eyes are very large, thin faced, particularly the lower part, with a large beard; no particular description can be given of his cloaths, except a brown cloth coat, and a pair of striped woollen trousers; this fellow had to a wife, a Negro wench the property of Thomas Watkins, sold by him three or four years ago to a person in Baltimore County, near the Long Caln, where I permitted him to go three or four times; it is therefore supposed they are making for Baltimore. All masters of vessels are requested to apprehend them should they attempt a trip by water. TEN POUNDS Reward will be given to any person securing them so that they may be had again, and all reasonable expences paid for their delivery to
WILLIAM BROGDEN.
Anne-Arundel County, May 10, 1787.
