Toney - BRIL20

BRIL20

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

South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal

May 12, 1767

Bricklayer

Male

William Coachman

William Coachman's Plantation at Ponpon

Ponpon/Jacksonboro, Colleton County, South Carolina

1. Formerly enslaved by Joachim Phalthaser
2. Self-emancipated from William Coachman

Advertisement

Run-away from the subscriber, the 13th of April, 1767 , three Negro fellows named BILLY, YORK, and TONEY ; Billy and York are black fellows, both boatmen, have been long used to go in a schooner, and are well known in Charles-Town.—Toney is a yellow fellow, by trade a bricklayer, and served his time to Joachim Phalthaser, at Childsberry. Any person that will take up the said fellows, and deliver them to me at Ponpon, or to the Warden of the Work-house in Charles-Town, shall receive a reward of Five Pounds currency for each. And any person harbouring or employing any of the said run-aways, may depend on being prosecuted, by

WILLIAM COACHMAN .

Ponpon, May 5, 1767 .