Kingston, March 15, 1801.
ABSCONDED this morning, a negro man, of the Mundingo
country, named HOPE, or POPE, but goes by the name of
JOHNSON, forty years of age, a carpenter by trade, 5 feet 8
inches high, marked on the right shoulder II; has a sneering
downcast look; and lost one of his upper front teeth; had on
an Osnaburgh trowsers, [inc] linen round jacket, and a wire
in his ear, and he is accustomed to wear a coloured handkerchief
about his head; was the property of Mr. John Johnson, of
Portland, Carpenter, dec. at which place he is now supposed to
be, having lived there from a boy; he was taken upon Mr. Vaughan’s
Mountain, about Liguanea, but made his escape. Five
Pounds will be given for apprehending or delivering him, and
Sixteen Pounds on conviction by whom harboured, on application
to Dawson and Etuce [inc], or
JOHN JAQUES.