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Title
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Billy - VA-COO18
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Identifier
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VA-COO18
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Source
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Virginia Gazette
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Date
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June 15, 1769
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Enslaver
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John Brockenbrough
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Home
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Hobb's Hole
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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Hobb's Hole, June 6, 1769.
RUN away from the subscriber,on the second of May last, a Negro boy named BILLY, about 16 years old, a likely, stout, well made lad, and not very black: Had on, when he went away, a brown cloth coat, with red sleeves and collar, and green plains waistcoat and breeches. He was seen in Richmond county, going upwards with one David Randolph, a cooper by trade, who ran away from this town about the same time. He is a stout well made fellow; and had on a blue lapell'd serge coat, with yellow buttons, a blue and white striped waistcoat, (which appear'd to be country made) and feather breeches: He had other clothes with him, and some coopers tools; He work'd some time ago at Mr. James Hunter's; but I am inform'd her serv'd his time in Philadelphia,and am apprehensive he will carry the boy to Maryland, or Pennsylvania, and sell him.—Whoever takes up the said boy, and secures him,so that I may get him again, shall receive FIVE POUNDS, if taken in the colony; if out of the colony, TEN POUNDS.
JOHN BROCKENBROUGH
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gender
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Male
