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Achillis-NC-COO30

Title: Achillis-NC-COO30
Identifier: NC-COO30
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
Source: American Recorder
Date: August 17, 1821
Trade: cooper
gender: male
Enslaver: William L. Lavender
homeLocation: Washington County, N.C.
events: 1. Formerly Enslaved By ENSLAVER William Robinson. 2.Self-emancipated from ENSLAVER William L. Lavender.
Type: Advertisement
Transcription: Ten dollars reward. RANAWAY from the Subscriber about the 24th July last a negro man by the name of Achillis, formerly the property of Wm Robinson, dec'd. He is about 30 years of age, five feet nine or ten inches high, of a slender make and rather a dark black; and by trade a Cooper. It is supposed he is lurking about Plymouth or its neighbourhood, where he is well known, having lived there for the last two years with Mr. Horace Ely and where he has a wife. All persons are hereby forwarned harbouring, or taking him away, under the severest penalty of the law. The above reward will be given to any person or persons for apprehending and delivering said negro to me at this place, or securing him in any Jail in this state, so that I get him again--and if taken out of the state 20 dollars. WM.[WILLIAM] L. LAVENDER. Washington August, 19, 1821--tf320