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Curry Tuxent - VA-CAR21, VA-COO16

Title: Curry Tuxent - VA-CAR21, VA-COO16
Identifier: VA-CAR21, VA-COO16
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source: Virginia Gazette
Date: August 4, 1768
Trade: Carpenter; Cooper
Enslaver: Richard Edwards
Events: 1. Hired out to John Williams
2. Self-emancipated from Richard Edwards
Home Location: See all items with this value Lancaster County, Virginia; See all items with this value Virginia
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: Lancaster county, July 30.

RUN away from Capt. JOHN WILLIAMS,of Northumberland county, thelatter, end of May last, a Negro man namedCurry Tuxent, about 50 years of age, by trade a carpenter and cooper, he is a tallslim black yellow, about 6 feet high, haslost most of his upper fore teeth, talks veryfast and smooth; he carried with him carpentersand coopers tools, by which he willexpect to pass as a freeman. It is thought he is gone towards JAMES river, after a parcel of Negroes lately purchased by Sir Peyton Shipwith from the estate of Robert Britsow, Esq; Whoever secures the said fellow, so that I get him again, shall have five pounds reward, paid by

RICHARD EDWARDS.
gender: Male