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James Baxter/Alexander McCrea- JA-CAR7

Title: James Baxter/Alexander McCrea- JA-CAR7
Identifier: JA-CAR7
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Jamaica Mercury
Date: September 27, 1779
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Philip Prioleau
Home: Kingston
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Philip Prioleau
Notes: No home country listed
Transcription: Run away, on Monday the 13th instant from the Ferry where he was employed on the New Works, a mullatoe [mulatto] carpenter named JAMES BAXTER, but sometimes calls himself ALEXANDER MCCREA, under which name he came since Martial Law to Spanish Town as a soldier in the St. Ann's Foot. He is about 40 years of age, about 5 ft. 10 or 11 in. high, lisps a little, and has a down-look. He had been run away about eleven years when taken, and had all or most of that time lived at Cardiff Hall, Mr. Mumby's, and the places adjacent to Runaway Bay in St. Ann. Whoever will apprehend the said runaway, and lodge him in any of the gaols in this island, shall receive five Pounds reward from the proprietor. He has also gone by the name of Saunders. PHILIP PRIOLEAU.
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