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Title
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Jenny- MD-KNI1, MD-SEA1, MD-SPIN1
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Identifier
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MD-KNI1
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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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January 26, 1779
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Trade
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Knitter, Seamstress, Spinner
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gender
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Female
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Enslaver
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W.H. Jenifer
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from W.H. Jenifer
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Notes
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Compiled from Lathan Windley
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Transcription
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Port-Tobacco,
January 21, 1779,
EIGHTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ABSCONDED, on the first of December, 1778, the following Slaves, viz. JENNY, a light Mulatto Wench, 38 years of age, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, thick made, her nose upon the aquiline order, and broad at the end, long visaged, and has most of her fore-teeth much decayed: Had on a new country cloth black and white jacket and petticoat, white stockings, good shoes, pinchbeck buckles, white flannel under petticoat, and country linen shift. Also, JOHN SHORT, a Mulatto Fellow, (husband to the above described Wench) a carpenter and cooper by trade, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, about 48 or 49 years of age, has rather a small round face, much marked with small-pox, especially about the nose and cheeks, has a slight hesitation in his speech, and affects to be very humble: Had on a new jacket and breeches of black and white milled thick country cloth, an under waistcoat of red flannel, new shoes and stockings, good tow shirt, and a wool hat; he has likewise a pair of good buckskin breeches, and an old fearnought jacket, which he commonly wears over his other cloaths, and generally has a linen cap or a brown bushy wig on. They carried off with them a feather-bed with a striped tick, two or three blankets, two pair of Oznabrug sheets, and a good thick green rug; likewise a large chest, painted either blue or green, well filled with womens apparel, mostly fine and good, among which are a red cardinal, two stamped cotton and one calico gowns, some carpenter and cooper’s tools, and took with them a small brown Mare, with a wall eye and blaze face, and a brown Colt. They may probably endeavour to pass for free persons moving. The woman is an excellent spinner, knitter, and seamstress. Their reason for going off, as they gave out, was to prevent being sold. The above reward will be paid for securing them in any jail, so that I may get them again, and reasonable charges, if brought home.
W.H.JENIFER.
