RUNAWAYS, EXCERPTS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, 1775-1783

Philip Lyon, living in Lombard St., Phila., offers reward for recovery of Negro named Anthony Castoff, shoemaker, who has been at sea for some time and speaks French, Spanish, and English; Castoff was taken in Sept. 1779, in the Mississippi; he has deserted from on board the Continental ship Saratoga. (13 Dec. 1780)

William Luckett, living at the mouth of Monocasey, in Montgomery, Md., offers reward for recovery of runaway mulatto slave named Ben Fendly, age c. 23, weaver by trade. (14 Feb. 1781)

David Kerr, living at Greenburry's Point, near Annapolis, offers reward for recovery of a Negress named Sue, age c. 45, who in Baltimore passed by the name of "free Poll"; she is now about Phila., waiting for her husband, a free mulatto named Mark Stubbs, who sailed from Baltimore in a ship called the Enterprize; Stubbs is aged about 50; reward will be paid in specie. (16 May 1781)

Henry Howard, whose plantation is near Northampton Furnace in Md., offers reward for recovery of runaway mulatto slave named Joe, age c. 21, who formerly belonged to a man in Cumberland Co., Pa., and drove a wagon from thence to Baltimore by way of M'Callister's-Town. (28 Nov. 1781) said Joe has been taken and committed to New-Castle Co. Gaol.  (12 Dec. 1781)

These are from the NATIONAL GENEALOGY SOCIETY QUARTERLY
VOL. 67  JUNE 1979

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