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Tom- MD-SHOE1

Title: Tom- MD-SHOE1
Identifier: MD-SHOE1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: August 28, 1777
Trade: Shoemaker
gender: Male
Enslaver: Hilary Wilson
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Hilary Wilson
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: Calvert County. RAN away from the subscriber, the 27th day of July last, a lusty NEGRO man, named Tom, about twenty five years of age, of a yellowish complexion, and has a down look, his wool is combed up before, and his crown is oftentimes shaved, he is a tolerable good shoemaker, and understands the water, as he has been used to go in the boat with me: Had on, when he went away, a gray fearnought coat, one duffil ditto, country cloth breeches, striped and bound before with blue, one pair of blue cloth ditto, one country linen shirt, and one white ditto, one pair of white yarn stockings, one pair of shoes with brass buckles, and a straw hat bound with black; he speaks short in a muttering way. Whoever takes up the said negro, and secures him so that the owner may get him again, shall receive ten dollars reward, paid by
HILARY WILSON.