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Title
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Norton Minors - NY-CAU3, NY-SHICAR2
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Identifier
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NY-CAU3, NY-SHICAR2
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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Parker's New-York Gazette; or, The Weekly Post-Boy, #933
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Date
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November 20, 1760.
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Trade
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Caulker, Shipcarpenter
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Farrall
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Home Location
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St. Croix
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Events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Mark Quayne
2. Formerly enslaved by [Richard] Craddock
3. Self-emancipated from Messrs. Bodkin and Farrall
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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Pretends to be Free #191
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Transcription
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Forty Dollars reward and all reasonable charges shall be paid to any person that secures and brings to William Kelly of the City of New York, merchant, a negro man named Norton Minors who ran away from his masters, Messrs. Bodkin and Farrall on the Island of St. Croix, on the first Day of July last; is by trade a Caulker and Ship Carpenter, has lived at Newbury in New England, was the property of Mr. Mark Quayne, who sold him to Mr. Craddock at Nevis, from whom the above gentlemen bought him about three years ago, is about five feet eight inches high, aged about 37, speaks English, reads and writes, and is a very sensible fellow.
