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Tom-NC-COO5

Title: Tom-NC-COO5
Identifier: NC-COO5
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
Source: State Gazette of North Carolina
Date: Februrary 7 , 1788
Trade: Cooper
gender: Male
Enslaver: Thomas Williams
homeLocation: Jones County, N.C.
events: 1. Self- emancipated from ENSLAVER Thomas Williams.
Type: Advertisement
Transcription: Twenty Dollars Reward. RUN-AWAY about a fortnight ago, a likely Negro Fellow, named TOM, a cooper by trade; he is about five feet ten inches high; is supposed to be lurking about Edmund Hatch's , jun. in Jones county. Whoever secures said negro so that he may be had again, shall receive the above reward. THOMAS WILLIAMS. Jan. 30.