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Jack - NY-SAW9

Title: Jack - NY-SAW9
Identifier: NY-SAW9
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: New-York Packet
Date: January 11, 1791
Trade: Sawyer
Gender: Male
Enslaver: Robert Crommelin
Events: 1. Formerly enslaved by Edward Bardin
2. Formerly enslaved by Mr. Corre
3. Self-emancipated from Robert Crommelin
Home: Flushing, Queens
Home Location: Queens, New York
Item Type: Advertisement
Notes: p. 2, col. 1
Transcription: [3 pounds reward offered by Robert Crommelin, of Flushing, for "a mulatto boy named Jack" has run away; "wears his hair bushy, sometimes cued and curled"] He passes for a free fellow, was seen on board a vessel at work and about town sawing wood; he has served with Mr. Edward Bardin and last with Mr. Corre at the Hotel.