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Title
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Bob -NC-SHICAR2
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Identifier
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NC-CAR2
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863,
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Source
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Wilmington Gazette
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Date
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July 28, 1807
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Trade
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ship carpenter.
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gender
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male
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Enslaver
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Henry Urquhart
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homeLocation
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Wilmington, N.C.
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events
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1. Hired out to Captain Thomas Hunter.2. Self-emancipated from ENSLAVER Henry Urquhart.
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Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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20 Dollars Reward. THE above reward and all reasonable charges is hereby offered, to any person, white or black, who will apprehend, and deliver to myself or to Mr. Wright, Deputy Sheriff, at the Goal, my negro man slave BOB, well known in, and about this Town, he having lived here upwards of twenty years--a ship carpenter by trade, has been hired to Captain Thomas Hunter for near six years past, and has absented from his service on Tuesday the twenty-third June last past. He is a Guinea born negroe, and has retained a good deal of the new negro accent, he is a strong clumsy made fellow about 5 feet 6 or seven inches high, very clumsy about the feet and legs, very slovenly in his dress, goes in all weathers, generally with his shirt collar and jacket unbuttoned--he is very tricky, and very plausible and coxing when he has any favor to ask, and is apparently pleased and in good humor till he obtains his end, and when he laughs show his teeth to great advantage which are very white, he seldom combs his hair, generally lowsy[sic] and is much inclined to go dirty, no certain description can be given as to his clothing, as before he went away he swindled a negroe belonging to a vessel out of three dollars in money & some goods under the promise of buying him fowls for them, with which money and goods he will probably get himself new clothed--it is not apprehended that he is gone to sea, therefore from the date hereof all masters of vessels are cautioned, against carrying him to sea, and all others white or black harbouring him. HENRY URQUHART. Wilmington, 24th July, 1807.}
