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Title
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Mark - NJ-PREA1
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Identifier
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NJ-PREA1
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Date
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January 12, 1775
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Major Prevost
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Home
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House of Major Prevost
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Home Location
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Bergen County, New Jersey
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Events
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1. Enslaved by Major Prevost
2. Married to Jenny
3. Self-emancipated from Major Prevost
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Notes
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Pretends to be Free pg. 178
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Transcription
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FIVE POUNDS Reward, And all reasonable charges. RUN away from the House of Major Prevost, in Bergen County, on the 29th of September last, a Negro Man and his Wife: The Fellow is serious, civil, slow of Speech, rather low in Stature, reads well, is a Negro Preacher, about 40 Years of Age, he is called MARK. The Wench is smart, active and bandy, rather lusty, has bad Teeth, and a cast in one Eye; she is likely to look upon, was brought up in New-London, is called Jenny: as she had a Note to look for a Master, its likely she may make a travelling Pass of it—Whoever takes up said Negroes, and brings them to the Subscribers, or secures them in any of his Majesty’s Gaols, or gives such Information of them as they may be had again, shall be entitled to the above Reward, and all reasonable Charges paid, either by Major Prevost, Archibald Campbell, in Hackinsack; or Thomas Clarke, near New-York.
