Citation - Virginia Gazette-Williamsburg (D&N): 1779.04.09

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Index Entry Essex, or Sussex, runaway Negro, plays fiddle 
Location Buckingham Cty 
Citation
VGW(DN.779.007
9 Apr 1779:42 (9)
Two hundred dodlars reward.  To any person that will deliver
to me in the lower end of Buckingham county, a middle sized
Virginia born Negro fellow, who has been run away ten years,
his name is Essex, alias Sussex.  I am informed that he has
passed for a freeman and has taken the surname of Scott, and
goes sometimes by water; I was told he was at Smithfield
last summer at the house of Mr. Hansford.  He is very
straight, talks thick, has had a bad breaking out under one
of his jaws, the scars very visible when he went away.  He
is about 29 years old, has thick lips, a stern countenance,
and was very fond of playing upon the fiddle before he left
me. [signed] Anthony Winston.


Generic Title Virginia Gazette-Williamsburg (D&N) 
Date 1779.04.09 
Publisher Dixon, John and Thomas Nicolson 
City, State Williamsburg, VA 
Year 1779 
Bibliography B0048054
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