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Title
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George- JA-BRIL13
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Identifier
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JA-BRIL13
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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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The Royal Gazette
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Date
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January 4,1806
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Trade
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Bricklayer
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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William Robertson
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Home
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Airy castle, St. Andrew
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Transcription
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Airy-Castle, St. Andrew, Jan. 10, 1806. ABSCONDED from the above property, about eight months ago, CAESAR and CUDJOE: Caesar is about five feet six inches high, forty-five years of age, a Coromantee, speaks good English, is a plausible artful fellow, and will endeavour to pass for a free man; he is stout made, marked on his breast GF, and on one of his shoulders WR in one: Cudjoe, a sawyer by trade, a creole, no visible mark, yellowish skin, and stout made, about the same age and size as Caesar: They have been seen in Kingston, and are harboured there, or on board of ship. Also, GEORGE, ran away about two years by trade a bricklayer and mason, is supposed to be harboured by his free relations in Spanish-Town, or probably at Port-Augusta, where he was taken up about three years ago; he was purchased from a Mr. George Calvert, bricklayer, in Kingston, in the year 1800; he is marked on one of his shoulders GC, on the other WR in one, and, among his friends and companions, passes by the name of MILLWOOD. Any person lodging him, or any of the above negroes, in a workhouse or gaol in this island, giving notice thereof to the subscriber, shall receive Five Pounds reward for each; and the sum of Fifty Pounds to any person proving to conviction by whom they, or either of tem, are harboured or employed. WILLIAM ROBERTSON.
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Type
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