BCDA (Objects) · George- JA-CAR15

George- JA-CAR15

Title: George- JA-CAR15
Identifier: JA-CAR15
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Cornwall Chronicle
Date: February 19, 1783
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Thomas Forbes
Home: Caledonia Estate, Westmoreland
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Thomas Forbes
Notes: Congo
Transcription: Run away, from the Subscriber the 16th instant, a Negro man of the Portuguese [Congo] country named GEORGE, aged 20 years, about 5 ft. 4 in. high, and marked on both shoulders and breasts AA,◊ on top. Had on when he eloped, a check shirt and oznaburg trowsers, and is supposed to have gone toward St. Ann, having worked in that parish some time as a carpenter. Whoever secures said Negro in any of his Majesty's gaols, or gives information so that he may be secured, shall receive a Half-Joe reward, by applying to the Subscriber at Caledonia Estate, Westmoreland. THOMAS FORBES.
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