Limerick - CAR32

Item

Title
Limerick - CAR32
Identifier
CAR32
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source
South Carolina Gazette
Date
March 12, 1763
Trade
Carpenter
Gender
Male
Enslaver
Francis Roche
Home Location
South Carolina
Events
1. Self-emancipated from Francis Roche
Item Type
Advertisement
Transcription
RUN away, on the 28th of February last, from the subscriber, a negro fellow named LIMERICK,
about five feet five or six inches high, of a thin visage, speaks good English, is by trade a
carpenter, and well known in town, where it is supposed he is gone: He had on when he went away
a white negro cloth jacket and breeches, and a pair of blue boots. Whoever apprehends the said
fellow, and delivers him to the warden of the work-house, or to Capt. Benjamin Roberts in
Charles-Town, or the subscriber, at the head of Cooper-river, shall receive a reward of five Pounds
and all reasonable charges; and whoever will give information of his being harboured by any
white person, upon conviction, shall receive a reward of twenty-five pounds, and if by a negro, ten
pounds.

FRANCIS ROCHE.

N.B. All masters of vessels are forbid carrying the said negro fellow
off the province at their peril.