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Title
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Toney - TAN5
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Identifier
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TAN5
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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South Carolina Gazette
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Date
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July 13, 1769
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Type
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Advertisement
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Trade
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Tanner
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Philip Smith
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Transcription
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RUN AWAY from the subscriber, about the twelfth of June last, a negro fellow named TONEY, of a yellowish complexion, about four feet and half high, well set, has had the small-pox, was born in New-York, whers he served his time so the tanner's business, was lately the property of one Carmen in New-Jersey, and brought into this province last fall by Captain Andrew Hampton. He is an artful, sensible fellow, and speaks good English; he told some of the subscriber's people before he ran away, that he would good Charles-Town and endeavour to get a passage to the Northward, in some vessel : Any person who will deliver the said fellow to me, or the warden of the work-house, shall receive TEN POUNDS reward. All masters of vessels and others, are hereby fore-warned carrying him off the province.
House-Shoe, July 10, 1769.
PHILIP SMITH.
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Home
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Philip Smith's house at Horseshoe Savannah
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events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Mr. Carmen
2. Self-emancipated from Philip Smith
3. Passed as a free man
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homeLocation
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Horseshoe Savannah, Colleton County, South Carolina
