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Title
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Stephen Wooley - NJ-SHOE2
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Identifier
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NJ-SHOE2
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1865, Artisans, Shoemakers
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Source
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Palladium of Liberty
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Date
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September 19, 1808
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Trade
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Shoemaker
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Joseph Burrel
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Home Location
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Morris-Town, New Jersey
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Events
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1. Self-emancipated from Joseph Burrel
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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Found on genealogybank
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Transcription
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Five Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the Subscriber, early yesterday morning, an apprentice Boy, to the Shoe making buisness, by the name of Stephen Wooley, between 18 and 20 years of age, but small ; he had black hair--dark complexion--thick lips, and is somewhat freckled--He took away with him two coats, one a bark brown cloth, the other a light mamjeen--two waist-coats, one yellow and white calico, the other yellow and black velvet, somewhat faded--one pair of light nankeen pantaloons, and one pair of blue nankeen trowsers--a fur hat--two pair of stockings, one brown cotton, the other a pailblue mixed woolen.--What part of the above clothes he had on when he went away is not known. Whoever will take up said runaway, and return him to the subscriber, or confine him in any gaol so that he may get him again, shall be entitled to the above reward. JOSEPH BURREL. Morris-Town, 19th Sept. 1808
