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Title
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Boatswain- JA-MAS3
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Identifier
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JA-MAS3
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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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Cornwall Chronicle
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Date
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December 16,1793
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Trade
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Mason
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Henry Thornhill Gibbes
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Home
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Crawle Estate, St.James
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Notes
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Congo Country
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Transcription
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Five Pounds reward for each Negro. Ran away, from this Estate last January a tall, lusty Negro man, named BOATSWAIN, of the Congo country, a mason and boiler by trade; he formerly belonged to RICHARD SAMUELLS, dec., is remarkable for attending Negro plays, where he makes use of several feats of activity, for which his company is courted by the Negroes on several estates. He passes now for a free Negro, and has been seen lately at Cambridge, Oxford, Georgia, and Hyde-Hall estates, in Trelawny. The Subscriber considers him a dangerous Negro on any estate, very capable of inculcating mischievous ideas in other Negroes. The above reward will be paid to any person lodging the said Negro in any gaol or workhouse in this island, giving information to the Subscriber. Also, ran away, about eighteen months ago, a short, lusty, yellow skin Negro woman named MOLL, of the Mayow country, leased by the Subscriber from Mr. JAMES CROOKS. It is imagined she is harboured at Water-Valley Estate, in Trelawny, by a Negro man who was formerly her husband at Hampden Estate, by some of her shipmates, or at Falmouth. The above reward will be paid to any person lodging the said Negro woman in any gaol or workhouse in this island, giving information to the Subscriber; a further reward of six Guineas will be given to any person, proving to conviction her being harboured, if by a white person; three Guineas if by a person of color; and two Guineas if by a Negro. HENRY THORNHILL GIBBES.
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Type
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