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Colas-NC-SAI3

Title: Colas-NC-SAI3
Identifier: NC-SAI3
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--T0 1863
Source: New Bern NC Gazette
Date: July 31, 1778
Trade: sailer
gender: male
Enslaver: Mess Lowry
Home: Edenton
events: 1.Formerly Enslaved By ENSLAVER Mr. Lasaille. 2. Self-emancipated from ENSLAVER Mess Lowry.
Type: Advertisement
Transcription: STOLEN or strayed from Edenton about six weeks ago,a fine black horse.. Also run away away from said lace about three months
ago, a negro man named Colas, born in the French West-Indies, and brought here some time in last war, can speak both French and
English tolerably well, a good cook and sailor; 40 years old, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, had on when he went away a blue cloth jacket' and a pair of trowsers, was formerly the property of Mr. Lasaille, in render rent homan, knom
Whoever delivers said negro and horse to Mess. Lowry, in Newbern, Mon. Laporte
Edenton, Mr. John Meals, Fredericsburg, Virg. or Galvan de Bernough, Fredericksburg, shall
40 dollars for
Edenton July 28.