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Tom- JA-BUT4

Title: Tom- JA-BUT4
Identifier: JA-BUT4
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Royal Gazette
Date: June 07,1806
Trade: Butcher
gender: Male
Enslaver: Lambert, Stephenson & Co
Home: Kingston
Transcription: Kingston, June 13, 1806. ONE DOUBLOON REWARD. ABSCONDED from the subscribers, about five months ago, a Butcher negro, named TOM, a short thick set fellow, of the Congo country, was formerly the property of Mr. John Reeder; has been frequently seen about Hays’s pen, near Old-Harbour. Whoever will secure him in any gaol or workhouse shall be entitled to the above reward; and a further sum of Fifty Pounds on proving to conviction by whom harboured, if by a white person, and Twenty Pounds should it be a person of colour. All Masters of Vessels are hereby cautioned against harbouring, employing, or taking him off the island, as should it be the case, the law will be enforced to the further extent. LAMBERT, STEPHENSON, & CO.
Type: Advertisement