Mingo - COO41
Title
Mingo - COO41
Identifier
COO41
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Coopers and cooperage
Source
Gazette of the State of South Carolina
Date
April 7, 1779
Trade
Cooper
Gender
Male
Enslaver
Maurice Simons
Home
Maurice Simons's Plantation
Home Location
St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina
Events
1. Formerly enslaved by Mr. Brewton
2. Self-emancipated from Maurice Simons
2. Self-emancipated from Maurice Simons
Item Type
Advertisement
Transcription
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 of them at the Workhouse in Charles-Town, or to Mr. John Marion at said Plantation in St. John's Parish.
MAURICE SIMONS.
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 of them at the Workhouse in Charles-Town, or to Mr. John Marion at said Plantation in St. John's Parish.
MAURICE SIMONS.
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