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Jacko- JA-CAR19

Title: Jacko- JA-CAR19
Identifier: JA-CAR19
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Cornwall Chronicle
Date: December 23, 1784
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Francis Grant
Home: Sunderland Estate, St. James
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Francis Grant
Notes: No home country listed
Transcription: Run away, the 15th of December 1783, a Negro man named JACKO, about 30 years of age, of a tall thin make, and marked S T I, by trade a carpenter. He was on a former occasion put in Savanna la Mar gaol by Dr. PUGH. Also, in June last, an old yellow Negro man named MALBRO, supposed to be skulking about Little River, in this parish, or Davis's Cove, in Hanover, where he lately lived. A reward of a Half-Joe for Jacko, and a Pistole for Malbro, will be given to those who lodge them in any gaol or workhouse (giving notice thereof) [sic] or on sending them to FRANCIS GRANT, Esq., in Trelawny, or the overseer on the above Estate.
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