I represent Prince. I was a man of color, a cooper and carpenter. I was enslaved by John Watts, Deputy Commissary of Pensacola. I sought freedom from Watts in the summer of 1765. The ad Watts placed in The Georgia Gazette of June 20, 1765 called me “sensible” and a “good carpenter and cooper.” He went on to say that I may have tried to pass myself off as a freedman, as I was an “artful, cunning, fellow.” It also said I was from “Carolina.”
Sources: 12, 49