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Anthony - VA-CAR23, VA-COO19, VA-SAW17, VA-SHOE25

Title: Anthony - VA-CAR23, VA-COO19, VA-SAW17, VA-SHOE25
Identifier: VA-CAR23, VA-COO19, VA-SAW17, VA-SHOE25
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source: Virginia Gazette
Date: July 27, 1769
Trade: Carpenter; Cooper; Sawyer; Shoemaker
Enslaver: Thomas Gaskins
Home: Thomas Gaskins's Plantation
Home Location: Lancaster County, Virginia; Virginia
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from Thomas Gaskins
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: RAN away about the middle ofJune last, from my plantation, in Lancaster, a Negro man named ANTHONY, of a yellowish complexion, near 40 years of age, about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, well set, and one of his legs smaller than the other. He pretends to be a freeman, and knows something of the shoemaker's, sawyer's, carpenter's and cooper's trades. Had on when he went away, a flannel jacket, breasted, over which he had a common cotton one; also the other cloathing, commonto Negroes, but may have changed his dress, Whoever apprehends and for uses the said slave, so that I may get him again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS reward, besides what the law allows, paid by

THOMAS GASKINS.
gender: Male