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Will- JA-CAR96

Title: Will- JA-CAR96
Identifier: JA-CAR96
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Jamaican Courant
Date: 1806-04-04
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: John. T G Harris
Home: Kingston
Transcription: Kingston, April 3d, 1806. TWENTY POUNDS REWARD. RAN AWAY, from Raymond-Hall Coffee Plantation, in the Parish of St. Andrew, a negro man slave named WILL, a Carpenter by trade, a Coromantee, works with his left hand; it is stronglu suspected that he is harboured by some negroes at Hall’s-Delight-Sugar Estate, as he has a wife there, and was in the habit of going there almost every Sunday. Whoever will apprehend and deliver him to the Overseer at Raymond-Hall Plantation, or to the subscriber, shall receive a pistole reward, and if proved to conviction by whom he is harboured, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be given. JOHN T. G. HARRIS.
Type: Advertisement