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Title
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Bacchus - COO52
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Identifier
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COO52
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Source
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Royal Gazette
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Date
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August 11, 1781.
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Mrs. Holmes
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Home
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Doctor Turnbull’s Home, No. 80 in Broad Street
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Events
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1. Self-emancipated from Mrs. Holmes
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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RUN away on the third of this month from Charlestown, in a canoe, a FAMILY of NEGROES, consisting of a man, woman, and four children; the man is named BACCHUS, a stout black man, about six feet high, pitted with the small pox, 32 years of age, and a cooper by trade; the wench is named BETTY, of a middle size, her age about 30, and of a yellowish cast; a boy and a girl, one of 13, the other about 14 years of age; also a boy of 8, and another of 3 years old. Whoever will deliver the above negroes to Mrs. HOLMES, at Doctor Turnbull’s, No. 80, in Broad-street, shall receive FIVE GUINEAS reward for the man, and a GUINEA for each of the others. TEN GUINEAS reward is also offered for an information to conviction of any person who harbours the above persons.
August 11, 1781
