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Title
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Joe/Cudjoe - COO7
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Identifier
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COO7
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
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Source
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South Carolina Gazette
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Date
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September 22, 1746
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Trade
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Cooper
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Alexander Wood
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Home
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Point Comfort Plantation
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Home Location
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Aiken County, South Carolina
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Events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Mrs. Cochran
2. Formerly enslaved by John Beeson
3. Self-emancipated from Alexander Wood
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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RUN AWAY from Point-Comfort on Savannah River, within 20 Miles of Old Savannah Town or New-Windsor, the latter End of December last, a Negro Man and Woman: The Man goes by the name of Cooper Joe or Cudjoe, he is burnt or scalded on one Cheek, and formerly belong’d to Mrs. Cochran and John Beeson: The Woman is his Wife, a tall lusty young Wench, can speak good English, Chickesaw, and perhaps French, the Chickesaws having taken her from the French Settlements on Mississippi: It’s thought they keep about Ponpon, Ashepoo, Combahee, or Port Royal, the Fellow being very well acquainted with those Parts. Whoever takes up and brings ’em to the Work house, or to Doct. John Martini in Charles Town, shall have 20 Ł Reward of Alexander Wood.
