BCDA (Objects) · Will, Othello, and Simon; GA-FISH1

Will, Othello, and Simon; GA-FISH1

Title: Will, Othello, and Simon; GA-FISH1
Identifier: GA-FISH1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source: Gazette of the State of Georgia, Savannah
Date: 9/25/1788
Trade: Fishermen
gender: MALE
Enslaver: Abrm. Jackson (ad placer, enslaver)
Home: Possibly Skidaway
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Abrm. Jackson
Transcription: Three guineas Reward. R U N A W A Y, From the subscriber, about three weeks since, The following Negroes, to wit, WILL, an elderly black fellow, pitted with the smallpox, and limp in his walk. OTHELLO, a likely black fellow, middle aged, wears his beardin general long, is short and well made. SIMON, a stout likely young fellow of a yellow complexion, and son of Will. All speak good English, and are well known in and about Savannah, and particularly on Skidaway island, as fishermen. They have long been used to work out, and ere part of the property of the late Henry Yonge sen. Esq. ddeceased. The above reward will be given to any person who will deliver the said negroes to the subscriber, or to the Warden of the Workhouse; and SIX GUINEAS on information and conviction of their being harboured by any white person. Abrm. Jackson. Savannah, 18th Sept. 1788.
Type: Advertisement