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Cook/John- JA-BRIL15

Title: Cook/John- JA-BRIL15
Identifier: JA-BRIL15
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Royal Gazette
Date: March 15, 1806
Trade: Bricklayer
gender: Male
Enslaver: James Newlands
Home: Newlands' Park, St. Andrew
Transcription: Newlands’ Park, St. Andrew, March 21, 1806. FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. INVEIGLED AWAY, on the 26th of February last, a negro man, named COOK, baptized JOHN, supposed to be about five feet six or seven inches high, by trade a mason and bricklayer, black complexion, of the Mungola country, about twenty-six years of age, front teeth filed on top, stutters when he speaks, takes snuff, plausible, and may attempt to pass as free, or may have procured a forged ticket to work out: he is well known in St. Mary’s, on Mr. Lynch’s estates; in Vere, on Mr. Parker’s estates; also in the parishes of St. Thomas in the East, St. Catherine, Kingston, and Port-Royal. Two Pounds Fifteen Shillings will be paid by the subscriber to any person lodging him in any workhouse or gaol in this island, giving information thereof; and the above reward on proving to conviction by whom harboured, if by white person; and Twenty-Five Pounds if by a person of colour. JAMES NEWLANDS. N. B. Masters of Vessels are cautioned not to employ or carry him off the island
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