Bacchus - COO52

COO52

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

Royal Gazette

August 11, 1781.

Cooper

Male

Mrs. Holmes

Doctor Turnbull’s Home, No. 80 in Broad Street

Charleston, South Carolina

1. Self-emancipated from Mrs. Holmes

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RUN away on the third of this month from Charlestown, in a canoe, a FAMILY of NEGROES, consisting of a man, woman, and four children; the man is named BACCHUS, a stout black man, about six feet high, pitted with the small pox, 32 years of age, and a cooper by trade; the wench is named BETTY, of a middle size, her age about 30, and of a yellowish cast; a boy and a girl, one of 13, the other about 14 years of age; also a boy of 8, and another of 3 years old. Whoever will deliver the above negroes to Mrs. HOLMES, at Doctor Turnbull’s, No. 80, in Broad-street, shall receive FIVE GUINEAS reward for the man, and a GUINEA for each of the others. TEN GUINEAS reward is also offered for an information to conviction of any person who harbours the above persons.

August 11, 1781