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Philip- JA-FID2

Title: Philip- JA-FID2
Identifier: JA-FID2
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Jamaica Mercury
Date: March 3,1780
Trade: Fiddler
gender: Male
Enslaver: Aaron Silvera
Home: Liguanea
events: Advertisement
Transcription: Run away, from the Subscriber a Negro man-boy, named PHILIP, remarkable for having a large head and eyes, a fiddler by trade, stammers much in his speech, marked A S, and is well known in Kingston. Also a Negro wench named MIMBA, black complexion, pitted a little with the smallpox, red eyes, and supposed to be harboured in Spanish Town, by a Negro belonging to Councellor Browne, who has her as a wife. Whoever secures either or both aforesaid Negroes and brings them to the master, or lodges them in gaol, shall receive twenty Shillings for each, and upon proof by whom harboured, on conviction of the offense shall receive five Pounds, from AARON SILVERA.
Type: Advertisement