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Title
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Atlone- JA-SAW7
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Identifier
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JA-SAW7
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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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Jamaica Mercury
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Date
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February 10,1780
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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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Dorothy Peake
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Home
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Spanish Town
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Transcription
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Referred to as a 'creole', BRUTUS, a creole, a short thick black complexioned man about 40 years of age; has a wife at Mr. Haden's at Old Woman Savanna in Clarendon, about which place he is supposed to be lurking; a field Negro, rather bow-legged. ATLONE, a stout short man of a yellow complexion, a creole, upwards of 40 years of age; has a wife named Princess at Mr. Shield's at Pedro's Valley, St. Ann; a sawyer by trade. ABRAHAM, an old man, of a yellow complexion, of the Eboe country, stout made; has a wife at Mr. Price's estate at Luidas, named Juba; a sawyer, sometimes pretends to be sick with the phisisiek [sic]. TOBY, a yellow skinned fellow, stout and tall, about 25 years of age, a creole, marked on his shoulder (supposed to be WW C) [sic], supposed to be about Dr. Foulin's estate, with a Negro of said estate's named Fortune; a field Negro. QUASHIE, a short black boy, (a creole) [sic], about 16 years of age, full eyed (the son of Mimba) [sic]; field Negro. FRANK, tall black complexioned, middle-aged, supposed to be about Mr. Thomas James's Old Woman Savanna; has a wife there named Henrietta; a creole, a sawyer by trade. KATE, and her mulatto boy child named SAMPSON; she is about 20 years of age, a creole, field Negro; has Dr. Foulk's watchman named Sampson at Old Woman Savanna; one of her feet is a little deformed from an old sore; the child is about three years old. MIMBA, a young black woman, has some breaking-out about her legs (the mother of Quashie) [sic], at Mr. Mattock's estate in Old Woman Savanna has a husband there named Tom; about 25 years of age, a creole, field Negro. JUBA, a stout young woman, has also a husband at Mr. Mattock's estate named Cuffee; had on a green doccas, marked on both cheeks W W C, a creole, a washerwoman. JACK (nicknamed JACK-COME-FIRST) [sic], a short, thick, black complexioned man, marked with the smallpox, a tailor by trade, a creole; has a wife at Mr. Haden's, St. John, named Esther; has some defect about his nose. SARAH, yellow-complexioned old woman, a creole, was employed as a watch, used to frequent Mr. Thomas James and Mr. Haden's at Old Woman Savanna; a little hurted about the nose, and has some breaking-out near one of her wrists, and dim-sighted. GING, a stout black man, has lost all the toes of one of his feet, a creole, supposed to be about Mr. Breary's at Pedro's Valley, is a penn-keeper, rather old. SAMPSON, a tall black man, a creole, a sawyer, has a wife named Molly, belonging to a free black woman named Grace James, at the Valley in St. John, where he is supposed to be harboured; has a cut on his shin, wears a cocked hat, and is a smart looking fellow. Also run away a Negro man named KENT, a cooper by trade, lately belonging to the estate of JOHN CLIFFORD, dec.; of the Mocco [Moco] country, has a piece taken off one of his ears, of a middle-age, is a well set fellow, rather bow-legged, and about 5 ft. 7 in. high. Whoever apprehends all or any of the above Negroes, and lodges them in any of the gaols of this island, or delivers them to the Subscriber in Spanish Town, shall receive two Pounds fifteen Shillings reward for each of them; and whoever harbours or conceals any or either of them, may depend on being prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law. DOROTHY PEAKE.
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Type
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