unknown, Jacob [18]
Item
- Title
- unknown, Jacob [18]
- Gender
- Male
- Biography
- Jacob, a forty-year-old freedom seeker trained as a shoemaker escaped enslavement in Jessamine County in 1819. He was held by the heirs to the estate of Capt. Robert Edwards. He escaped at Christmas and a reward for fifty dollars was offered for his return.
- Birth information
- circa 1779
- Participant in
- 1819 - Jessamine Co., A Christmas escape
- Relationship
- Enslaver: Edwards, Robert Capt. (heirs)
- Bibliographic citation(s)
- Reporter, Lexington, Ky., April 26, 1820
- Source(s)
- GenealogyBank.com
- Item sets
- AA--Enslaved--Kentucky--Jessamine County