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Title
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Mercury- NC-CAR2, NC-PAI2, NC-GLA1
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Identifier
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NC-CAR2, NC-PAI2, NC-GLA1
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Subject
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African Americans-- History Carpenters
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Source
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Wilmington, N.C. : Wilmington Gazette, Wilmington, New Hanover County.
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Date
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June 3,1802
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Trade
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Carpenter, painter, glazer
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Bejamin Smith
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Home
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Belvedere
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homeLocation
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Wilmington, North Carolina
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events
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1. Self- Emancipated from ENSLAVER Benjamin Smith on June 6, 1802.
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Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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This craftsperson is also found in the following collections:Carpenter, painter, glazer.
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Transcription
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RUN AWAY LAST night the subscriber's waiting man MERCURY, generally well known about Wilmington and down the river, as an artful, roguish, drunken fellow.-To strangers the following description may be necessary: Mercury is a dark mulatto of thin visage and make, about five feet ten inches high and twenty-eight years of age, he is handy and expert about house, kitchen, garden, stable, carpenter's tools, painting and glazing, very civil and mannerly when sober, but insolent and quarrelsome when intoxicated, which is nearly as often as he can get at liquor, so that no dependence is to be placed on him-Had on when he went away, grey coating jacket, and pantaloons, but carried off with him other clothes amongst which are blue cloth pantaloons and coatee. In a former attempt to escape from service, he shipped himself aboard a vessel as a cook, and passed as a freeman by the name of Jack, it is therefore proabable he will alter his name, & endeavor to leave the state by water.- A very generous reward will be paid for delivering him at Belvedere or lodging him in jail, and ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, on conviction of any person harbouring him on board a vessel, with intent to carry him out of the State or port. If he be harboured on the shore the offender will be prosecuted with the utmost severity, and an handsome reward paid on proof being made of the offence. BENJA. SMITH Wilmington, June 3.
