Hayfield, St. Thomas in the Vale,
April 22, 1809.
FOR SALE,
MANGO GROVE, in this parish []
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RANAWAY.
A negro man named PLATO, formerly the property of Mr.
Ogilvy, lately practitioner in physic and surgery at Old-Harbour;
was sold publicly by Mr. John Douglas, in Kingston, and
aftewards privately, by a very honest man of the same place,
for cent. per cent. and in about ten days made off, got into Clarendon
workhouse, and last went away 25th December, 1806;
whether he is harboured in Kingston, or about St. John’s, or
Clarendon, mountains, those who have him are advised to be a
little more circumspect.
Also, on the 28th June, 1808, an elderly Negro Man, a bricklayer,
well known in Kingston, Spanish-Town, Old-Harbour
and St. John’s mountains; an artful fellow. He has some very
particular friends in Kingston, of a complexion which they disgrace.
He must have some of that description in St. David’s, as
it had been said he was employed there, hanging coppers. Formerly
this fellow pretended to be a Christian and a Methodist,
which he was very attentive to in Kingston. He once belonged
to Mr. D. Garriques, of Spanish-Town, and is marked on the
left shoulder DO, and on the right shoulder H GUY. He was
lately seen in Spanish-Town.
Also, ranaway, QUAMIN, 9th March 1809 – This fellow has
got himelf flogged in Spanish Town workhouse some little time
before his elopment. He is a tall awkward person, with a defect
in one eye. He formerly belonged to Mr.William Brooks,
dec. marked on both shoulders with a W, two and a half inches
long, or the common size of a cattle mark, and HG inverted,
on the right shoulder. A Doubloon will be given for placing
either of the two first named in a workhouse; and Two Pistoles
fo doing the like with Quamin, or bringing them to
JOHN HUDSON GUY.