Nancy Smith - MS-MIL1

Item

Title
Nancy Smith - MS-MIL1
Identifier
MS-MIL1
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source
Natchez Gazette
Date
February 13, 1823
Trade
Milliner
gender
Female
Enslaver
R. H. May, Jailor
Notes
Is Free woman from New York, captured in Adams County, Mississippi; jailed by R. H. May, no enslaver
Transcription
WAS Commmitted to the Jail of Adams coun-ty on the 17th instant, a run-away, a negro girl who says her name is Nancy Smith, and also that she is free, that she was born in New York, and is a milliner by trade, that she served her time at that trade in Nova Scotia; she is rather of a yellowish complexion, about 6 feet high, well clothed, has a very modest appearance, says she is about 26 years of age. Feb. 13. 8—
Item sets
Millers