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Philip- JA-BARB1

Title: Philip- JA-BARB1
Identifier: JA-BARB1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Cornwall Chronicle
Date: September 3, 1784
Trade: Barber
gender: Male
Enslaver: Micheal Hunt
Home: Montego Bay
Transcription: Ran away, from GEORGE FRENCH, Esq., to whom he was hired, a young negro man named SHARPER, about 5 ft high, of a slender make and marked on the black of the right shoulder with IE; he is a complete waiting-man and barber, and had on when he went away a pompadour coat, with frogs of the same colour. It is probable that he may attempt to pass as free, having already under an imposition of that kind taken a cruize in one of his majesty's ships of war, by the name of Tom Jones. JAMES ELFORD
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