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Title
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Toney - BRIL20
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Identifier
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BRIL20
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Bricklayers
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Source
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South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal
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Date
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May 12, 1767
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Trade
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Bricklayer
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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William Coachman
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Home
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William Coachman's Plantation at Ponpon
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Home Location
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Ponpon/Jacksonboro, Colleton County, South Carolina
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Events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Joachim Phalthaser
2. Self-emancipated from William Coachman
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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Run-away from the subscriber, the 13th of April, 1767 , three Negro fellows named BILLY, YORK, and TONEY ; Billy and York are black fellows, both boatmen, have been long used to go in a schooner, and are well known in Charles-Town.—Toney is a yellow fellow, by trade a bricklayer, and served his time to Joachim Phalthaser, at Childsberry. Any person that will take up the said fellows, and deliver them to me at Ponpon, or to the Warden of the Work-house in Charles-Town, shall receive a reward of Five Pounds currency for each. And any person harbouring or employing any of the said run-aways, may depend on being prosecuted, by
WILLIAM COACHMAN .
Ponpon, May 5, 1767 .
