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Toby - COO16, CAR16

Title: Toby - COO16, CAR16
Identifier: COO16, CAR16
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
Source: South Carolina Gazette
Date: January 16, 1755
Trade: Cooper; Carpenter
Gender: Male
Enslaver: Thomas Cheverall
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from Thomas Cheverall
Home: Thomas Cheverall's Plantation at Ponpon
Home Location: Ponpon/Jacksonboro, Colleton County, South Carolina
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: RUN AWAY the 20th of January, 1755, from the subscriber at Ponpon, a likely mustee fellow named Toby, a cooper and carpenter by trade: He took his cloaths with him, and is supposed to have gone on horseback some distance. Any person that will bring him to the said subscriber, shall have 10 Ł currency reward, and all reasonable charges paid. Thomas Sacheverell.