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Title
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Quacko-NC-CAR6, NC-COO23
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Identifier
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NC-CAR6, NC-COO23
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Subject
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African Americans-- History Carpenters
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Source
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Edenton Gazette and North Carolina General Advertiser
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Date
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September 17, 1809
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Trade
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Cooper, Carpenter
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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John C. Baker
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homeLocation
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Brunswick County, N.C.
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events
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1. Passed for a free man.Formerly 2. Formerly Enslaved by ENSLAVER James Blount. 3. Self-emancipated from ENSLAVER John C. Baker.
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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, Cooper, Carpenter.
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Transcription
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40 Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber on the 17th instant, a dark Mulatto Man, named QUACKO, he is about thirty-seven years of age, five feet seven inches high, and very stout made, he is very artful, and professes to be a Cooper and Job-Carpenter. I expect he will have a pass, as he can write. He formerly belonged to Mr. James Blount, of Washington County, and came to this County as a freeman, calling himself John Brown; and when he was apprehended produced several papers to prove his freedom, which was written by himself, and he had signed the names of several Justices of the Peace to said papers.--It is uncertain where he will aim for, but perhaps for Washington County, he is well acquainted along the Sea-Coast from here to the Virginia line--and may lurk about Wilmington, Newbern, Edenton, or Beaufort, or perhaps get to some retired place in the Country;--or he may endeavor to get on board some vessel by calling himself a free-man. All Captains of vessels or other persons are forwarned from concealing or harboring the said Mulatto, under the penalty of the law--I will pay the above reward to any person who will apprehend and bring to me, or confine in any Jail so that I get the said Quacko again. JOHN C. BAKER. Brunswick County,} Sept. 18, 1809.}
