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Title
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Caesar - NY-GLAI1
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Identifier
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NY-GLAI1
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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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The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury #1315
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Date
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January 6, 1777
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Trade
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Glazier
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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William Wood
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Home Location
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New York
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Events
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1. Self-emancipated from William Wood
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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Pretends to be Free #418
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Transcription
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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.
