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Title
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Tony-NC-FID5
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Identifier
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NC-FID5
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Subject
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African Americans--History--To 1863
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Source
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Wilmington Centinel and General Advertiser.
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Date
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June 18, 1788
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Trade
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fiddler
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gender
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male
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Enslaver
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Miss Cobham
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Home
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Mount Pleasant Estate
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homeLocation
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Cape Fear, Bladen county, NC
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events
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1. Self- emancipated from the estate of ENSLAVER Miss Cobham.
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Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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This craftsperson may also be a carpenter by trade, advertisement states he ran away with carpenter tools.
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Transcription
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RUN AWAY from Mount Pleasant estate, on the
North-West, a Negro fellow named TONY, late the
property of Miss Cobham,well known in and about Wilmington, as he was one of
the fiddlers to the assemblies.He is tall,well made, and thin
vissaged, between black and yellow.
He took away a fiddle, some carpenters
tools, &c.He has a wife at Mr. Frederick Jones's,
on the Sound, named Belly, (his
cook) who harboured him when he left his master before.
He, and some others, it is suspected, intend trying to
get to the Eastern states,imagining they will be free. Thier intended rout is by the back part of this
state and Virginia,to Pennsylvania; they proposed taking their wives.Tony's wife would not go with him A reward of TEN POUNDS will be given to any person who will secure him in any of the gaols of this or any neighbouring state; and any moderate expence to deliver him to Mr. Sheriff Wright,or by giving information by letter Goodin Elletson, At mount pleasant on North West of Cape fear. Bladen, May 17, 1788
