hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for W. B. Cook or search for W. B. Cook in all documents.
Your search returned 3 results in 3 document sections:
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Runaway--one Thousand Dollars reward. (search)
Runaway--one Thousand Dollars reward.
--Ran away, on Friday, December 30, a Negro Boy, about twenty-five years old, named Hampton Johnson.
He is about five feet six inches in height; weighs about one hundred and thirty pounds; black; a good many of his jaw teeth are out; and inclined to be delicate.
I purchased him about three years ago from William Garnett.
His wife lives on Seventeenth street, near Austin's grocery.
He can read and write remarkably well.
He has been working in my foundry as a mechanic.
I will pay one Thousand Dollars reward if taken within the enemy's lines, or Five Hundred Dollars if within our lines, and delivered to Hill, Dickinson & Co. W. B. Cook, Founder, Eighth street, near Main. ja 4--6t*
For Sale, privately, a very likely and intelligent young Black Girl, accustomed to waiting in the house, nursing, cooking and sewing.
She sews rapidly, and would make an excellent seamstress; quick in her movements and of amiable and kind disposition.
Sold for no fault. --She can be seen at Miss Cook's, near southeast corner of Second and Broad streets. Also, a Ladies' Cloak.
ja 9--1t*
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Runaway--one Thousand Dollars reward. (search)
For Hire.
--For hire, a good plain Cook, Washer and Ironer, with a sprightly little Girl about six years old. She is healthy and industrious, and to a good home her hire will be made reasonable.
Apply to E. A. Smith, at R. H. Duke's, Cary street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth. ja 7--2t*