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Title
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Mingo - NY-MUSIC21
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Identifier
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NY-MUSIC21
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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: or The Weekly Post-Boy, #1179
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Date
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August 8, 1765
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Trade
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Musician (Fiddler)
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Isaac Wilkins
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Home Location
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West Chester, New York
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Events
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1. Born in Long Island
2. Formerly enslaved by Mr. Campbell of "Harvest Straw"
3. Formerly enslaved by John Jones
4. Self-emancipated from Isaac Wilkins
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Notes
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Pretends to be Free #286
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Transcription
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Run away from the subscriber, at West Chester, on Sunday the 21st of July Last, a negro fellow named Mingo who I’m told has formerly gone by the name of Jim, he is well made, well-looking negro, of about 5 feet 6 inches high, is 27 years old, but appears rather older than he is, he understands all kinds of farming work and plays tolerably on the fiddle, He was born at Long Island, and was lately the property of one John Jones, blacksmith, at or near Harvest Straw, who had him from one Campbell of the same place. He had on (or with him) a deep blue broad cloth coat that had been turned, with blue buttons to it; a blue cloth waistcoat, a coarse brown linen waistcoat and an old black plush waistcoat, brown mixed color cloth breeches with a pair of blue worsted and a pair of white ribb’d threaded trousers. Whoever takes up and will secure the said fellow so that the master may have him again shall receive Forty Shillings Reward and all reasonable charges from Isaac Wilkins. Westchester, August 8, 1765.
