Port-Maria, April 15, 1801.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, in March, from St. George’s,
the following negroes: - JAMES, a stout made negro, speaks
good English; he is a little bandy-legged, and is subject to
Guinea worms in them. – BAMFF, he has a cast in his eyes,
and, the nail of one of his thumbs grows over the point of it.
– DAVIE, has large swelled legs, and sofre on them, and large
breasts, like a woman, and has a bald or scald head; the two
former are marked on the shoulders G P, within a diamond;
they are of a middle age, and about 5 feet 4 inches high. – PATIENCE,
a very lusty woman, marked on the shoulder C P,
within a diamond; they are all well known in St. Mary’s, and
in the adjacent parishes, and Kingston and Spanish-Town; they
may try to get on board of ship to work, and say they are free.
– I thereby caution all masters of ships and vessels, and others,
not to employ them, or take them off the island, as they will be
dealt with, according to law: The subscriber will esteem it as a
particular favour, that if his friends seeing any of his negroes
at a future period, will take them upm and send them to the
workhouse, if they are found without a paper; they are well acquainted
in the towns and country. Whoever will secure them,
and send them to me, or lodge them in any gaol or workhouse,
shall receive a half-joe reward for each, by informing the subscriber.
GEORGE PERRY.