Caesar - NY-GLAI1

Item

Title
Caesar - NY-GLAI1
Identifier
NY-GLAI1
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source
The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury #1315
Date
January 6, 1777
Trade
Glazier
Gender
Male
Enslaver
William Wood
Home Location
New York
Events
1. Self-emancipated from William Wood
Item Type
Advertisement
Notes
Pretends to be Free #418
Transcription
Eight Dollars Reward. RUN-away on Monday the 22nd of December, a negro man named CÆSAR, about 30 years of age, very short, well-set, bandy leg’d, of a grave countenance, speaks civilly, and wants some of his fore teeth, wears commonly a dirty looking cloth coat with buttons of the same colour, a new round hat with high crown, and a set of silver shoe and knee buckles of open work; in wet weather commonly wears boots, and has a variety of cloaths. He passes himself for a free man and a glasier by trade. Whoever takes him up and secures him in any Goal so that his master gets him again, shall receive Eight Dollars reward, and reasonable charges, on application to the printer, or the subscriber, at the ordnance-office in New-York. All persons are forewarned not to harbour, employ, or carry of said negro. WILLIAM WOOD.
Item sets
Glazier