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Ben- JA-CAR140

Title: Ben- JA-CAR140
Identifier: JA-CAR140
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Saint Jago Gazette
Date: 1815-02-25
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Caleb Tonge
Transcription: Resource, St. Ann’s, January 2, 1815. WHEREAS the following negroes, viz. BEN, a carpenter, JANE and BESS, field women, (who were sold to Bushy-Park estate, in the year 1811, and re-purchased by me in May last,) ranaway from that estate some time since, and have not returned to me: This is to give notice, that if they will come home in a short time after this date, they will be pardoned, and reestablished in houses and grounds on this property, with the other negroes; but if they do not return, and are taken, they shall be tried as runaways, and dealt with according to law; and I do hereby offer a reward of one Doubloon for each of the above slaves, to any person who will deliver them to me, or lodge them in Spanish-Town workhouse. Ben is a creole, and supposed to be harboured about Eyndless estate, St. Thomas in the Vale, or at mr. Williams, St. John’s. Bess and Jane are Eboes, and it is supposed are about mr. John Townshend’s, jun. or Cocoa-Walk. CALEB TONGE.
Type: Advertisement