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Cuffee- JA-MAS17

Title: Cuffee- JA-MAS17
Identifier: JA-MAS17
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Cornwall Chronicle
Date: March 26, 1784
Trade: Mason
gender: Male
Enslaver: Robert Kerr
Home: Hanover
Transcription: Run away, about the month of April 1781, a Negro man named CUFFEE, of the Coromantee country, by trade a mason. He is remarkably black, thin, about 30 years of age, 5 ft. 6 in. high, and supposed to be marked on the right shoulder R K. Also, in the month of October last, a Negro man named CUFFEE, of the Canga country, speaks good English, is about 30 years of age, 5 ft. 9 in. high; he formerly belonged to the estate of Mr. JAMES CAMPBELL of the parish of St. Elizabeth, and supposed to be skulking about Lenox Estate or Windsborough Penn, in said parish. Whoever takes up said Negroes, or either of them, and will give information to Robert Kerr, Esq., Hanover, or the Printer hereof, or lodges them in any of the gaols or workhouses in this island, shall be entitled to a Half-Joe for the former, and five Pounds for the latter, with all reasonable charges. (ROBERT KERR) [sic].
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