Hercules - COO1

Item

Title
Hercules - COO1
Identifier
COO1
Source
South Carolina Gazette
Date
October 28, 1732
Trade
Gender
Male
Enslaver
Robert Hume
Home
Robert Hume's Plantation
Events
1. Self-emancipated from Robert Hume
Item Type
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Transcription
RUN away from his Master’s Plantation, in the Parish of St. James’s Goose-Creek, a lusty Negro Man named Hercules, he formerly used to wait on his Master in Charlestown, & is now by Trade a Cooper. He had on when he went away a blue Duffils Jacket, a pair of ozenbrig Breeches, and speaks very good English. Whoever apprehends and brings him either to the said plantation in Goose-Creek, or to his master Robert Hume on Charlestown Neck, shall receive 5 Ł reward, besides the usual Allowance for mileage. Robert Hume.