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Quamino - COO19

Title

Quamino - COO19

Identifier

COO19

Subject

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

Source

South Carolina Gazette

Date

December 30, 1756

Trade

Cooper

Gender

Male

Enslaver

Col. Charles Pinckney

Home

Col. Charles Pinckney's Beech Hill Plantation

Home Location

Dorchester County, South Carolina

Events

1. Self-emancipated from Col. Charles Pinckney

Item Type

Advertisement

Transcription

RUN AWAY from Col. Pinckney’s plantation at Beach Hill, about a month since, the following negroes: Quamino, a tall black fellow, a cooper by trade, speaks very plain English. Peter, a mustee short squat fellow, with black curl’d hair. Ishmael, Caesar, Cuffee, and Sampit, all of a middle stature, and speak plain English. The two first have been seen in Charles Town since they ran away. Any person, white or black, that will apprehend the said run aways, and deliver them, or either of them, to James Welsh overseer at the said plantation, to the warden of the work house, or to the subscriber in Charlestown, shall receive for the first named in the advertisement seven pounds, and for all or either of the five last mentioned five pounds current money each.
William Pinckney.
Dec. 24, 1756.

Files

Quamino - COO19 - SC Gazette 12-30-1756 p3.JPG

Collection

Coopers

Citation


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