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Peregrine- JA-CAR6

Title: Peregrine- JA-CAR6
Identifier: JA-CAR6
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Cornwall Chronicle
Date: September 10, 1776
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Christopher Roe/Michael Hunt
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Christopher Roe
Notes: Chamba Country
Transcription: Ran away, from CHRISTOPHER ROE, in the month of December last, a Negro man of the Chamba country, belonging to the subscriber, named PEREGINE; he is about 22 years of age, 5 ft. 8-1/2 in. high, marked I H with a kind of half moon between the letters, on the right shoulder and bred a carpenter; he is a stout, well made fellow, of a yellow complexion, with his country marks in his face, and has a scar on his ankle. He can speak the Coromantee language and pretty good English; it is suspected he is harboured on or about Duan Vale Estate in Trelawny. Whoever apprehends the said Negro, and secures him in any of the gaols of this island, giving information thereof, so that the owner may have him again, shall be intitled to a reward of Three Pistoles, and if found harboured by any free Negro or mulatto, Five Pounds and if by a white person or persons, Ten Pounds sterling, so that the offender or offenders may be brought to justice. MICHAEL HUNT.
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