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London - CAR52

Title: London - CAR52
Identifier: CAR52
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source: Gazette of the State of South Carolina
Date: January 20, 1779
Trade: Carpenter
Gender: Male
Enslaver: John Brailsford
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from John Brailsford
Home Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: One Hundred Pounds Reward.

RUN away from the subscriber some time last month, a Mustee Fellow named BILLEY, a Carpenter by trade; he is stout and well made, about five feet ten inches high, has a scar on one of his cheeks, is very artful and Probably may be a working at his trade about the town: A reward of one hundred Pounds is hereby offered to any person giving information of his being harboured by a white person, and twenty if by a negro, to be paid on conviction of the offender. And twenty pounds will be paid for the delivery of him in Charlestown to the subscriber.

JOHN BRAILSFORD.