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Catcheby- JA-BRIL12

Title: Catcheby- JA-BRIL12
Identifier: JA-BRIL12
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Royal Gazette
Date: May 26,1804
Trade: Bricklayer
gender: Male
Enslaver: Frank Love
Home: Kingston
Transcription: Kingston, May 28, 1804. ABSCONDED from the Subscriber about seven months past, a Negro Man named CATCHEBY, a creole of this island, by trade a Bricklayer, stout made, and of a yellow complexion, about 5 feet 10 inches, and is supposed to be harboured about Red-Hill, in Clarendon, where he was born. Whoever will apprehend and bring him to the subscriber, or lodge him in any gaol or workhouse in this island, or prove to conviction by whom harboured, will receive a handsome reward, on application to FRANK LOVE.
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