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Title
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Mingo - COO41
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Identifier
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COO41
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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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Gazette of the State of South Carolina
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Date
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April 7, 1779
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Type
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Advertisement
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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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Maurice Simons
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Transcription
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One hundred Dollars Reward. RUN away from my plantation in St. John's Parish, the following Negroes,
HAMPSHIRE, a sensible, stout well-made black Fellow, a Carpenter by trade, and his wife SALLY, a short black Wench. MINGO, a tall, slim likely Fellow, a Cooper by Trade: Bob, a short, elderly Fellow, with his wife PHEBY. 'Tis imagined that they will incline toward Georgia, as they lately came from Mr. Brewton's Plantation, below the Town of Savannah. A Reward of Twenty Dollars for each will be paid for delivery of either of them at the Workhouse in Charles-Town, or to Mr. John Marion at said Plantation in St. John's Parish.
MAURICE SIMONS.
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Home
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Maurice Simons's Plantation
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events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Mr. Brewton
2. Self-emancipated from Maurice Simons
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homeLocation
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St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina
