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Title
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Bristol - WHEW5
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Identifier
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WHEW5
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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 and American General Gazette
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Date
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February 26, 1778
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Type
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Advertisement
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Trade
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Wheelwright
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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John-Alleyne Walter
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Transcription
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RUN away from the subscriber, three negro men, all this country born, viz. BRISTOL, CUSH AND GUY : Bris-tol is a wheelwright by trade, about 50 years old, and well known in this State and Georgia ; Cush a sensible, art-ful fellow, speaks good English, about 5 feet 8 inches high, and lusty made; Guy speaks good English, is well made, has a wife at Mrs. Thomas’s plantation, and is supposed to be harboured there by the negroes. Whoever will deliver the above negroes to the subscriber, or the Warden of the Work house in Charlestown, shall receive Ten Pounds cur-rency for each ; and if information can be given of their being harboured by a white person, the informer shall re-ceive One Hundred Pounds currency for each ; and if by a negro Thirty Pounds. All masters of vessels and others are hereby forewarned against carrying them off this State, or employing them in any way whatever, as they will answer the same at their peril.
JOHN-ALLEYNE WALTER
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events
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1. Self-emancipated John Allenyne Walter
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homeLocation
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South Carolina
