Billy- JA-MAS1

Item

Title
Billy- JA-MAS1
Identifier
JA-MAS1
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source
Jamaica Mercury, p12
Date
June 5, 1779
Trade
Mason
gender
Male
Enslaver
Hugh McCormick
events
1. Formerly hired out to Mr. Lawrence Robertson 2. Self-emancipated from Hugh McCormick
Notes
From the Coromantee Country (Ghana)
Transcription
Run away, the 1st of March last, a negro man named BILLY, of the Coramantee Country, a mason by trade. He is a well made fellow, about 5 ft 2 in. high has a large bushy head and beard (the latter he keeps close shaved) [sic], and a large mouth.He is marked on both shoulders with HMC was seen lately in St. George with two mason's trowels.He is well acquainted in St. George and Portland,having formerly worked with Mr. Lawrence Robertson in both parishes; is well acquainted all North side,having waited on the subscriber a number of years. Whoever will secure and lodge him in any of the gaols of this island, giving information,shall be entitled to forty Shillings; if brought to the Subscriber's penn, nigh the Moncague [sic], fifty five shillings ; if harboured or concealed, the informer, on conviction of the offender, shall have twenty Pistoles if a white person, any other colour (if free) [sic], ten pistoles ; a slave, five pistoles. Hugh McCormick.
Type
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Item sets
Masons