Jack -MD-SHOE4

Title: Jack -MD-SHOE4
Identifier: MD-SHOE4
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: August 25, 1785
Trade: Shoemaker
Enslaver: Alice Nicholson
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from Joseph Dowson
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: ONE GUINEA REWARD.
RAN away, about the 3d of July last, from Mr. Joseph Dowson, in Annapolis, a negro man slave named JACK, about twenty years old, six feet high, well made, can do all manner of plantation work, and can make and mend negro shoes; he is the property of Miss Alice Nicholson, over South river, and is supposed to be lurking about in that neighbourhood, or West river; his cloathing consists mostly of soldiers apparel. Whoever takes him up, and delivers him to me at Annapolis, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN CRISALL.
gender: Male