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St. James’s Workhouse
June 17, 1811
Escaped by ascending a pair of high stone-steps in the yard
of this place, and stepping from thence on the roof over the
fire-place, and sliding himself down on the outside, which
he was seen to do by a small boy, who gave the alarm, and
though closely pursued towards the Bay by several Negroes,
got into the bushes, a brown man, who called himself JOHN
SIMS, but whose right name is THOMAS SHARPE, and belongs
to Bellfield estate, St. Mary’s.
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