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Cuffee/Beckford- JA-CAR57

Title: Cuffee/Beckford- JA-CAR57
Identifier: JA-CAR57
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Royal Gazette
Date: December 12, 1801
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Sarah Keill
events: Sold
Notes: Marronage
Transcription: Kingston, Sept. 18, 1801. ABSCONDED, since the 24th June, 1801, without leave of the subscriber, my negro man slave, named CUFFEE, alias WM. BECKFORD, by trade a carpenter, well known in this town by putting up buildings on Wildman’s estate. He is suspected at this time to be harboured by a negro woman on the mountain of John Davidson, Esq. and that he gives himself out for free. A reward of Two Doubloons if harboured by a black or person of colour, and Four Doubloons if by a white person. SARAH KEILL.
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