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Title
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Peter- JA-SAW2
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Identifier
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JA-SAW2
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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 11, 1781
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Trade
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Sawyer
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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William Bosley
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Home
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Westmoreland
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from William Bosley
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Notes
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Eboe
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Transcription
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Run away, some time in February last two Negro men of yellow complexions, named TITUS and PETER; the one a Moco, the other an Eboe; they both speak English, and belong to Hopes, the Estate of WILLIAM BOSLEY in Westmoreland. Titus is rather slim made, about 35 years of age, 5 ft. 8 in. high, very active, a good boiler and sawyer, and can turn his hand to almost anything on a sugar estate, being a piece of a jobbing carpenter. The other fellow Peter is 6 ft. high, stout and well made, an extraordinary good boiler and compleat sawyer, and has filed teeth. They are both marked W B or BOSLEY at length on the shoulder. When they went away, they took with them very good cloaths, and it is supposed pass for free people; they have frequently been traced about the Barrack road in Westmoreland down to the Little Bogue in St. James, and are imagined to be harboured in that neighbourhood. Whoever apprehends the said Negroes, or either of them, and will send them to the Subscriber, shall receive five Pounds reward for each; and whoever discovers by whom they or either of them have been harboured and concealed, so that the offender may be brought to justice, shall receive the further reward of ten Pounds on conviction of the offender. WILLIAM BOSLEY.
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Type
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