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Title
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Joseph Low (Caesar) - NY-COACH85, NY-COOK54, NY-HOST16, NY-MUSIC17, NY-WAIT141
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Identifier
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NY-COACH85, NY-COOK54, NY-HOST16, NY-MUSIC17, NY-WAIT141
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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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New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury #1257
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Date
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November 27, 1775
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Trade
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Coachman, Cook, Hostler, Musician (French Horn Player), Waiter
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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John de Lancey
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Home Location
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Westchester, New York
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Events
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1. Self-emancipated from John de Lancey
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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Pretends to be Free #395
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Transcription
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Forty Shillings reward, with all reasonable charges will be given to any person who will bring to JOHN DE LANCEY, in the delivery, or secure in the city of New-York or county of Westchester, a Negro man, who has left his mistress. He is a good looking fellow, about five feet eight or nine inches high, civil spoken, a great cockscomb, and one of the best waiters at a table in this country; plays upon the French horn, is a tolerable good cook, coachman and groom, but his vanity proving more powerful than his honesty, he fraudulently obtained a silver watch, which being discovered it is imagined occasioned his going off. He has several suits of good cloaths, was generally called Cæsar, but names himself Joseph Low.
