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MG-A(G.772.068
10 Sep 1772:43 (1409)
Ten Pounds Reward. July 6, 1772. Ran away from the
subscribers, living near Soldiers Delight, in Baltimore
County, Maryland, a dark mulatto slave, who goes by the name
of Charles Harding, but formerly by the name of Dick; about
30 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, . . . [11 lines,
physical description] is a carpenter and joiner by trade,
and can paint, which he learned of Lewis Allmorn, of
Nanceman County, in Virginia, who sold him to Edward Voss, a
bricklayer by trade, and worked in sundry parts of Virginia,
and when said slave ran away from him, lived in King and
Queen County near Rapahannah, got by water to Philadelphia,
and from thence travelled through Lancaster and York
Counties to Hanover-town, and worked there about a year, and
from thence into Baltimore County near Baltimore-town, where
he continued, from about the year 1765 to 1772, as a free
man, and since he left his former masters in Virginia, has
learnt to read and write, and to play on the violin; . . .
[13 lines, clothes, terms, signed] Samuel Owings, jun.
Alexander Wells.
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