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Jacob - VA-SAW14

Title: Jacob - VA-SAW14
Identifier: VA-SAW14
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Virginia Gazette
Date: June 12, 1779
Trade: Sawyer
Enslaver: William Young
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from William Young
Home Location: See all items with this value Accomack County, Virginia; See all items with this value Virginia
Item Type: Advertisement
Transcription: RUN away from the subscriber at Guilford warehouse, in Accomack county, three negro men, viz. Isaac, Ned , and Jacob, Isaac is about 28 years of age, a short well made fellow of a yellowish complexion, by trade a shoemaker, and is very fond of playing on the violin. Ned , about 26 years of age, of the same complexion as Isaac , and is a good sawyer. Jacob , about 24 years of age, is a sawyer, and has been used to saw with Ned . Whoever will apprehend and secure the said negroes so that they may be had again, shall be handsomely rewarded by

WILLIAM YOUNG .
gender: Male