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Joe/Cudjoe - COO7

Title

Joe/Cudjoe - COO7

Identifier

COO7

Subject

African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage

Source

South Carolina Gazette

Date

September 22, 1746

Trade

Cooper

Gender

Male

Enslaver

Alexander Wood

Home

Point Comfort Plantation

Home Location

Aiken County, South Carolina

Events

1. Formerly enslaved by Mrs. Cochran
2. Formerly enslaved by John Beeson
3. Self-emancipated from Alexander Wood

Item Type

Advertisement

Transcription

RUN AWAY from Point-Comfort on Savannah River, within 20 Miles of Old Savannah Town or New-Windsor, the latter End of December last, a Negro Man and Woman: The Man goes by the name of Cooper Joe or Cudjoe, he is burnt or scalded on one Cheek, and formerly belong’d to Mrs. Cochran and John Beeson: The Woman is his Wife, a tall lusty young Wench, can speak good English, Chickesaw, and perhaps French, the Chickesaws having taken her from the French Settlements on Mississippi: It’s thought they keep about Ponpon, Ashepoo, Combahee, or Port Royal, the Fellow being very well acquainted with those Parts. Whoever takes up and brings ’em to the Work house, or to Doct. John Martini in Charles Town, shall have 20 Ł Reward of Alexander Wood.

Files

Joe - COO7 - SC Gazette 9-22-1746 p2.JPG

Collection

Coopers

Citation


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