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Title
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Sancho - MS-BAHA1
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Identifier
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MS-BAHA1
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Source
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Columbian Centinel
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Date
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September 30, 1807
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Winthrop Sargent
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Home
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Sargent's Plantation
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from Winthrop Sargent
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Notes
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Includes sillhouette of Sancho
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Transcription
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A GOOD LIKENESS OF SANCHO, A NEGRO MAN, thirty years of age, about 5 feet high, very black complexion, good teeth, not corpu-lent, but well form-ed, and of erect pofition of body & a faft walker, WHO abfented himfelf (fuppofed to have been inveigled a-way by fome art-fulvillainsfortheir own ufe and ben-efit) upon the E-vening of the 17th inft from his Mafter, WINTHROP SARGENT, late Governor of the Miffifippi Territory. He had learned the trade of a Barbere, and is in every re-fpect a moft accomplifhed fervant for a gentleman or a family ; was born and educated in his Mafter's houfe ; endeared to him, his miftrefs, and his own wife and children, as well as the numerous blacks of his Mafter's Plantations, by long affec-tionate, and faithful fervices, and ere this folitary inftance of malconduct, there was not a fingle doubt entertained that the attachments were mu-tual and inviolable. If he voluntarily returns to the fervice of his Mafter, he fhall be received with wonted kindnefs and affection, but no expenfe will be fpared to punifh to the mutmoft limits of the law, all perfons who may be acceffory in harbor-ing or concealing him, and the fun of FIFTY DOLLARS fhall be paid to any perfon who will apprehend and delvier him to his Mafter, or to his abfence to Mr. IGNATIUS SARGENT, in Bof-ton ; to Meffrs. G & I ASPINWALLE, in New-York, or Col. . HODGDON, in Philadelphia ;---or the fum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for delivering him to Mr. DAVID URQUHART, Merchant, New-Orleans. WINTHROP SARGENT.
