Hampshire - CAR54

CAR54

African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters

Gazette of the State of South Carolina

April 7, 1779

Carpenter

Male

Maurice Simons

Maurice Simons's Plantation

St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina

1. Formerly enslaved by Mr. Brewton
2. Self-emancipated from Maurice Simons

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One hundred Dollars Reward. RUN away from my plantation in St. John's Parish, the following Negroes,
HAMPSHIRE, a sensible, stout well-made black Fellow, a Carpenter by trade, and his wife SALLY, a short black Wench. MINGO, a tall, slim likely Fellow, a Cooper by Trade: Bob, a short, elderly Fellow, with his wife PHEBY. 'Tis imagined that they will incline toward Georgia, as they lately came from Mr. Brewton's Plantation, below the Town of Savannah. A Reward of Twenty Dollars for each will be paid for delivery of either If them at the Workhouse in Charles-Town, or to Mr. John Marion at said Plantation in St. John's Parish.

MAURICE SIMONS.