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Joe- JA-CAR112

Title: Joe- JA-CAR112
Identifier: JA-CAR112
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Saint Jago Gazette
Date: 1811-02-23
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Ben Henderson
Home: Dry Habour, Trelawny
Transcription: Dry-Harbour, St. Ann’s, Feb. 25, 1811. RANAWAY, from Aberly plantation, in the parish of St. Ann, a negro woman named HAGER, and her son RICHARD. Hager was middle sized, thin, and a creole. Richard was a boy, about eight or nine years old, when his mother carried him away. The above two slaves have been runaway upwards of ten years. JOE, also the son of Hager, ranaway sometime ago, and was taken up in Spanish-Town: he remained sometime at his work, but again absconded, in August 1810 – he is a tall good looking negro, a carpenter by trade: very plausible, and wishes to pass himself as a free man. A reward of Five Pounds will be given to any person who will lodge the above mentioned slaves in any workhouse; and Twenty Pounds on proving to conviction by whom harboured. Said slaves are supposed to be harboured in and about Spanish-Town and Old-Harbour. BEN. HENDERSON.
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