John/ John McClish -NC-TAI21
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Title
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John/ John McClish -NC-TAI21
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Identifier
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NC-TAI21
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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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North Carolina Gazette, or Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser
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Date
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November 3, 1785
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Trade
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tailor(in ad spelled taylor)
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gender
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male
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Enslaver
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Thomas Williams
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homeLocation
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New Bern, N.C.
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events
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1. Passes for free man 2. Self-emanciapted from ENSLAVER Thomas Williams.
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Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD ABSCONDED from New-Bern about twelve months past, a mulatto man slave named JOHN, who passes for a free man and calls himself JOHN McCLISH. He is a taylor[sic] by trade, well made, of a middle stature and wears his hair in a queue; he has been seen at the plantation of the late George Lovick, nine miles below New-Bern, on Neuse river, about three months past. Any person who will bring the said fellow to me in New-Bern shall receive the above twenty five dollars reward and all reasonable charges paid by THO.[THOMAS] WILLIAMS. New-Bern, Nov.[November] 2d 1785.
