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Will- MD-SAW4, MD-VIOL1

Title: Will- MD-SAW4, MD-VIOL1
Identifier: MD-SAW4
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: May 25, 1786
Trade: Sawyer, Violinist (Musician)
gender: Male
Enslaver: Samuel Edelen
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Samuel Edelen
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: THREE POUNDS REWARD.
May 19, 1786.
RAN away from the subscriber, living near Piscataway, in Prince-George’s county on the fifth instant, a negro man named WILL, about five feet five or six inches high, twenty-two years of age, rather of the yellow cast, his face is pretty full of bumps, he has a small scar on his forehead; his apparel is a coarse felt hat, upper jacket made of match-coat blankets, an under ditto of white woollen, with metal buttons market USA, a pair of half worn osnabrig trousers, and old shoes. Whoever takes up the above negro and secures him so that his master may get him again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges if brought home, paid by
SAMUEL EDELEN.
N.B. The above fellow has worked at the whip-saw, and can play on the violen.