Kingston, Jan. 27, 1800.
RAN AWAY, a few days before Christmas last, from Birnam-
Wood Plantation, in the parish of St. George, a Mulatto Lad,
named JEMMY, by trade a carpenter, middle-sized, with curly
hair, and rather a smiling countenance, formerly the property of
Mr. David Laing, Carpenter, at the sale of whose Carpenter Negroes
the subscriber purchased him. He may probably attempt
to pass himself for a free man, and has been seen working on
board vessels in the harbour, particularly in landing shingles
from a vessel, at Mr. Boswell’s wharf, during the Christmas
Holidays. He is supposed to be harboured about the yard, late
Mr. Laing’s, at the East End. A reward of FIVE POUNDS will
be given to amy person who will deliver him to the Subscriber,
or to the Overseer of the above Plantation, or lodge him in any
workhouse; and Twenty Pounds will be paid on conviction of
the party by whom he may be harboured, if a white person, or Ten Pounds, if by a negro or a person of colour. Masters of
vessels are warned against employing him, or carrying him off
the island, as the penalties of the Law, which are very severe,
will be enforced against them.
ALEXANDER AIKMAN.