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George- JA-CAR66

Title: George- JA-CAR66
Identifier: JA-CAR66
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Royal Gazette
Date: April 30,1803
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Charles Bernard
events: Self Emancipated from Charles Bernard
Transcription: Mill-Bank, Portland, April 18, 1801. Three Doubloons Reward WILL be paid to any person who will apprehend and safely lodge in any workhouse of this island, the under-mentioned Negroes; viz. JACK, alias JOHN BERNARD, a very artful fellow, with a little squint in his eyes, a Carpenter by trade, and marked on the right shoulder CB. GEORGE, a Carpenter also, a small clean skinned negro, very black, marked as above on right shoulder. HARRY, wants one of his great toes, an awkward ill looking negro, marked as above on the right shoulder. They were all seen some time since in or about the city of Kingston, but it is now supposed that they have taken up their quarters in some of the country parts, and particularly about the upper end of Trelawny. A Doubloon will be paid for each of them, and Twenty Pounds to any person proving to conviction by whom they, or any of them, are harboured, by application to Mr. James Brydon, in Kingston; or, to the subscriber, as above. CHARLES BERNARD.
Type: Advertisement