slavery in pennsylvania

Luzerne County 

slaveholders listed on this page

1. Schott, John P. (Slaves listed:  Robert)

enslavement data 

• Slaveholder Name:  Schott, John P.
  City or Township:  Wilkes-Barre
  County: Luzerne
  Occupation:
  Notes: 

   

  1. Slave Name:  Robert, or Bob
     Slave Sex:  Male
     Slave Age:  "About 22 years of age"
     Slave Date of Birth:  1771 (estimated from age given in advertisement)
     Slave Status:  Slave for life--runaway
     Slave Description: "Negroe Boy"
     Slave Notes: Ran away in September 1793

     RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the 11th day of September last, a Negroe Boy, named BOB, or ROBERT, about 22 years of age, has but one eye, and a scar on his breast, talks German and English; took with him a brown cloth coat, one pair of olive velvet breeches, one pair of black sattinet ditto, and jacket, one pair of boots, and one pair fine lined shoes, &c. &c. Whoever takes up said Negroe, and confines him in any goal, so that the owner gets him again, shall have EIGHT DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by JOHN P. SCHOTT, of Wilkesbarre, in Luzerne county, and state of Pennsylvania.

     Date of Record:  11 December 1793
     Source:  The Pennsylvania Gazette, 11 December 1793

   

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