Guy-NC-COO35

Item

Title
Guy-NC-COO35
Identifier
NC-COO35
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
Source
N.C. : Free Press
Date
November 16, 1830
Trade
cooper
gender
male
Enslaver
Edwin Whitehead
homeLocation
Nash County, N.C.
events
1. Formerly Enslaved by ENSLAVER Joseph Phillips. 2.Hired out to Edwin Whitehead.
Type
Advertisement
Transcription
$40 Reward for Guy. GUY is a cooper by trade, he was formerly owned by Joseph Philips, dec'd, of Edgecombe county; he has been hired by Edwin Whitehead formerly of Nash county, for the last two or three years, and has a wife at William Bellamy, Sen.'s in Nash county, and it is supposed he is lurking in that neighbourhood. I will give the above reward for the delivery of said negro in Tarborough Jail, or to me in Martin county. The said Guy is well known in Nash and Edgecombe counties as a cooper. FIGURES LOWE. Nov. 7, 1830. 13-5
Item sets
Coopers