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Frank Burr- NC-BRIL1

Title: Frank Burr- NC-BRIL1
Identifier: NC-BRIL1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--T0 1863
Source: Carolina Centinel
Date: March 15, 1820
Trade: Bricklayer
gender: Male
Enslaver: James G. Stanly
events: 1. Formerly Enslaved by ENSLAVER John Devereux, (Esquire). Self- emancipated from ENSLAVER James G. Stanly.
Type: Advertisement
Transcription: Forty Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the Subscriber, on the first of March last, a Negro fellow named FRANK, Or FRANK BURR, of the age of thirty years, about five feet seven inches high, well dressed, and by trade a Bricklayer. FRANK was raised by John Devereux, Esq. of whom I purchased him; has a wife at the Plantation of Durant Hatch, jun.[junior] Esq.[Esquire] of Jones County, and his father lives at Mr. Pollock's farm near Trent Bridge. He is lazy, very talkative, and can read and write. I will give the above reward for his apprehension and delivery in Newbern Jail, and pay necessary expences; and THIRTY DOLLARS, if he is confined in any other Jail, so that I get him. He is probably lurking about the plantations of Mr. Pollock, on Roanoke, where he has connexions. JAMES G. STANLY. April 14, 1820.--108 tf.