BCDA (Objects) · John Wiggins- MD-CAR3, MD-SAW1

John Wiggins- MD-CAR3, MD-SAW1

Title: John Wiggins- MD-CAR3, MD-SAW1
Identifier: MD-SAW1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: December 8, 1780
Trade: Sawyer, Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Elizabeth Kenner
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Elizabeth Kenner 2. Boarded a vessel belonging to John Turberville towards Baltimore
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: RAN away from the subscriber, a mulatto slave named John Wiggins, a carpenter and sawyer by trade, he also possess a good deal of the tinkers business, and to be very skillful in horses and diseases incident thereto; had on when he went away, a pair of white cotton breeches, and white woollen jacket striped with black yarn, what cloaths he carried with him is uncertain; he is a likely fellow, about thirty-nine years old, broad square shoulders, and light eyes, about five feet six or seven inches high, very talkative when intoxicated, which is frequent when he can get liquor; he is supposed to have gone on board a vessel belonging to Mr. John Turberville, of Westmoreland county, which set out for Baltimore the day he eloped, and I suppose intends to pass as a freeman. I will give fifty pounds reward to any person that will secure him in gaol and give me the earliest information, provided he is out of the state, if in the state, I will reward any person genteelly.