Prosper - CAR79, BRIL21

CAR79, BRIL21

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

South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal

July 4, 1769

Carpenter

Male

Benjamin Trapier

Benjamin Trapier's plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina

Georgetown, South Carolina

1. Self-emancipated from Benjamin Trapier

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Prosper is also known as James or John

RUN AWAY from the subscriber, the 30th of June last, a mustee follow, named PROSPER : but calls himself James , and sometimes John , a bricklayer and jobbing carpenter by trade; is about five feet ten inches high, thin visage, a little round shouldered, generally wears a large head of curled hair, has been lately branded in his right chock R, but it now only appears as a scar; had on when he went away a negro cloth jacket turned up with blue, with breeches and boots of the same, and petticoat trowsers, took with him an oznabrug and checked shirt; he has lately been seen in Charles-Town, where he formerly lived, and in which place he is, with good reason, believed to be harboured.— Whoever will apprehend and deliver the said fellow to me at George-Town, to Mr. John Cogdell, Factor, in Charles-Town, or to the warden of the work-house shall receive TWO GUINEAS reward, and reasonable charges.