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Hope/Pope/Johnson- JA-CAR56

Title: Hope/Pope/Johnson- JA-CAR56
Identifier: JA-CAR56
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Royal Gazette
Date: March 15,1801
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: John Jaques
Home: Liguanea
Notes: runaway, trade
Transcription: Kingston, March 15, 1801. ABSCONDED this morning, a negro man, of the Mundingo country, named HOPE, or POPE, but goes by the name of JOHNSON, forty years of age, a carpenter by trade, 5 feet 8 inches high, marked on the right shoulder II; has a sneering downcast look; and lost one of his upper front teeth; had on an Osnaburgh trowsers, [inc] linen round jacket, and a wire in his ear, and he is accustomed to wear a coloured handkerchief about his head; was the property of Mr. John Johnson, of Portland, Carpenter, dec. at which place he is now supposed to be, having lived there from a boy; he was taken upon Mr. Vaughan's Mountain, about Liguanea, but made his escape. Five Pounds will be given for apprehending or delivering him, and Sixteen Pounds on conviction by whom harboured, on application to Dawson and Etuce [inc], or JOHN JAQUES.
Type: Advertisement