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Title
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Jack Bray aka Green- MD-SHOE9, MD-WEA1
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Identifier
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MD-SHOE9
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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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September 3, 1782
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Trade
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Shoemaker, Weaver
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Anne Steuart and Charles Steuart
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events
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1.Self-emancipated from Anne Steuart and Charles Steuart
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Notes
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Compiled from Lathan Windley
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Transcription
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JACK BRAY, alias GREEN,
The property of Mrs. Anne Steuart, of Dodon, in Anne-Arundel County, ran away from his Mistress on Monday the 17th inst. then in the neighbourhood of Queen’s-Town—Jack is about 20 years of age, a very white mulatto, short and well set, freckled and has gray or blue eyes, short light hair curling in one row, thick stubbed nose; his other features are strong, and his face rather large for his stature—he wears a tolerable good felt hat, with a silver button, and has a variety of cloaths with him, unless he has disposed of them, which is probable, except what he may have immediate occasion for, as he offered some for sale, a little before he went off, for hard money; but he commonly wore a short light-colour’d coat, of country cloth, fitted, trim’d with pewter buttons, a jacket of the same, and brown cotton or buckskin breeches; he also carried with him a pair of boots, silver plated-spurs, a pair of shoes, overalls; old leather saddle-bags and knapsack, of leather dressed with the hair on—He will pass very well for a white man; was brought up to the trades of a weaver and shoemaker; has been used to drive a four-wheel carriage, at postillion. TEN POUNDS, hard, will be paid as a Reward to any person who will secure him, so that his Mistress may get him again, and reasonable charges, by
CHARLES STEUART.
June 25, 1782.
