Citation - Georgia Gazette (Johnston): 1775.05.17

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Index Entry Dancer, runaway Negro named Sambo 
Location Bear Creek 
Citation
GG(J.775.008
17 May 1775:12 (606 Supplement)
Run away from the subscriber the 4th of April, a country
born Negroe fellow, very black, six feet high, speaks very
good English, something short faced, tolerable well
breasted, but gaunt made, very humble and smooth spoken,
pretends to be something complaisant, he is a good dancer
and proud of it, his name is Sambo, but likely to change it,
he is a good hand to plow, to cut with an axe, or maul
rails, work with a hoe, saw with a whip saw, drive staves,
or to do any plantation work, can read print,  had when he
went away one of his toes lately cut next to his little toe,
is about 30 years old, carried off with him green sagathy
breeches, oznabrig coat, brown coat, striped jacket, white
ditto corded, a white embroidered jacket with blue silk,
white shirt, cap, and band or neckcloth, he pretends to be a
kind of taylor. Five pistoles reward . . . near the mouth of
Bear Creek, on the Savannah River [signed] Philip Dell


Generic Title Georgia Gazette (Johnston) 
Date 1775.05.17 
Publisher Johnston, James 
City, State Savannah, GA 
Year 1775 
Bibliography B0017449
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