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The original letterbook contains 315 documents, all of which are included. The majority were actually written by Blaine's assistant, John Chaloner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe preface to the text provides a brief history of the Commissary Department describing its creation and its many internal problems. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2001, 2004), 2016, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 240 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788417764\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B1776\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":362955997200,"sku":"101-B1776","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b1776-1500px.png?v=1776975376"},{"product_id":"101-b5437","title":"Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army, Volume 7, December 19, 1777-June 19, 1778","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I could not Refrain from tears\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe intent of this effort is to present a selection of these, in the seventh of such volumes, to allow greater understanding and appreciation of the Valley Forge Encampment. The six month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge has long since entered the realm of American myths. Some of the stories that have become legendary are reinforced in the letters herein. There are a number of references to the lack of shoes, blankets and clothing. Food was in desperately short supply. Efforts to rectify these difficulties are represented in these pages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments are arranged chronologically, and the original spelling and punctuation has been retained. A descriptive note at the foot of each entry gives the source location of each document, and identifies the writer and recipient the first time each individual appears. The author scoured the National Archives and more than twenty other state archives, university libraries, and historical societies in his search for these rare papers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2012, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 218 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788454370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B5437\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41273698960,"sku":"101-B5437","price":23.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b5437-1500px.png?v=1776975826"},{"product_id":"101-b5257","title":"\"this grand supply\": The Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784, Volume 2: April 3, 1781-May 24, 1784","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn July 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the appointment of a Commissary of Military Stores, who was responsible for the receipt and issuance of military stores. These letters concern the procurement, shipment, repair and sale of military stores; estimates of stores needed and on hand; construction of ordnance installations; and payment and discharge of employees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe letters were authored by three men: Commissary General of Military Stores and Assistant Quartermaster Samuel Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores Benjamin Flowers, and Deputy Commissary of Military Stores Richard Frothingham; however, Samuel Hodgdon produced the majority of the letters in his various positions in the military stores operations of the Continental Army. Military stores were critical to the army's operations, but Washington's men also faced shortages of clothing, food, and pay throughout the war. After 1781, and Cornwallis's surrender, there were no more major actions for the Continental Army in the North, and Hodgdon's letters assume a less frantic tone. These documents present a literal translation with spelling, punctuation and grammar remaining as they are found in the original. Letters are introduced by the names of the addresser and addressee.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5256\" title='\"this grand supply\" The Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784: Volume 1' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/a\u003e of this two volume series covers July 19, 1778-March 31, 1781; \u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5257\" title='\"this grand supply\" The Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784: Volume 2' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVolume 2\u003c\/a\u003e covers April 3, 1781-May 24, 1784. An index to full names, places and subjects completes each volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2010, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 360 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788452574\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B5257\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32007123344,"sku":"101-B5257","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b5257-1500px.png?v=1776975805"},{"product_id":"101-b5256","title":"\"this grand supply\": The Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784, Volume 1: July 19, 1778-March 31, 1781","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn July 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the appointment of a Commissary of Military Stores, who was responsible for the receipt and issuance of military stores. These letters concern the procurement, shipment, repair and sale of military stores; estimates of stores needed and on hand; construction of ordnance installations; and payment and discharge of employees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe letters were authored by three men: Commissary General of Military Stores and Assistant Quartermaster Samuel Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores Benjamin Flowers, and Deputy Commissary of Military Stores Richard Frothingham; however, Samuel Hodgdon produced the majority of the letters in his various positions in the military stores operations of the Continental Army. Military stores were critical to the army's operations, but Washington's men also faced shortages of clothing, food, and pay throughout the war. After 1781, and Cornwallis's surrender, there were no more major actions for the Continental Army in the North, and Hodgdon's letters assume a less frantic tone. These documents present a literal translation with spelling, punctuation and grammar remaining as they are found in the original. Letters are introduced by the names of the addresser and addressee.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5256\" target=\"_blank\" title='\"this grand supply\" The Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784: Volume 1' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/a\u003e of this two volume series covers July 19, 1778-March 31, 1781; \u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5257\" target=\"_blank\" title='\"this grand supply\" The Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784: Volume 2' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eVolume 2\u003c\/a\u003e covers April 3, 1781-May 24, 1784. An index to full names, places and subjects completes each volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2010, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 338 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788452567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B5256\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32007187600,"sku":"101-B5256","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b5256-1500px.png?v=1776975803"},{"product_id":"101-b0744","title":"From Redcoat to Rebel: The Thomas Sullivan Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis publication chronicles several years in the life of Thomas Sullivan, who enlisted in the British Army in 1775, fought in the Revolution, and deserted to join American forces in 1778.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe journal covers about three and a half years. Sullivan participated in events including the Battle of Bunker Hill, the British evacuation of Boston, the British campaigns to capture Long Island and New York City, the battles at Trenton and Princeton, the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown as well as the rest of the actions of the Philadelphia Campaign. In addition to the events he witnessed, Sullivan also recorded other events of the war with as much exactness, as the nature of the particulars would permit a private soldier. He used official reports verbatim, with his own personal comments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1997), 2006, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 250 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788407444\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B0744\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":362949214224,"sku":"101-B0744","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b0744-1500px.png?v=1776975155"},{"product_id":"101-b1529","title":"Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army, Volume 1, December 19, 1777-June 19, 1778","description":"\u003cp\u003eHundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe intent of this effort is to present a selection of these, as the first of several such volumes, to allow greater understanding and appreciation of the Valley Forge Encampment. A brief introduction describes the events that led to General George Washington's decision to encamp at Valley Forge. During the six months spent there, the Continentals suffered for lack of shoes, blankets, clothing and food, and complained loudly of tardy and insufficient pay. The garrison at Valley Forge was at odds with local people who traded with the British forces occupying Philadelphia, while the officers in camp bickered among themselves. The men also celebrated when they heard news of American victories and the signing of the Treaties of Alliance and Commerce with France. Camp rumors occasionally spread, but the arrival of Friedrich von Steuben instilled a new discipline which boosted the general morale and dramatically improved battlefield deployment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments are arranged chronologically, and the original spelling and punctuation has been retained. A descriptive note at the foot of each entry gives the source location of each document, and identifies the writer and recipient the first time each individual appears. The author scoured the National Archives and more than 20 other state archives, university libraries, and historical societies in his search for these rare papers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2000), 2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, indices, 196 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788415296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B1529\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42847086544,"sku":"101-B1529","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b1529-1500px.png?v=1776975347"},{"product_id":"101-b1825","title":"Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army, Volume 2, December 19, 1777-June 19, 1778","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Winter in this starved Country\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe intent of this effort, as the first of several such volumes, is to present a selection of these to allow greater understanding of the Valley Forge Encampment. Some of the stories, that have become legendary, are reinforced in these letters. Gen. Anthony Wayne reports on December 28, 1777, that \"At this inclement Season one third of our Troops are totally Destitute of either Shoes, Stockings, Shirts or Blankets...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments are arranged chronologically, and the original spelling and punctuation has been retained. A descriptive note at the foot of each entry gives the source location of each document, and identifies the writer and recipient the first time each individual appears. The author scoured the National Archives and more than 20 other state archives, university libraries, and historical societies in his search for these rare papers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2001, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 198 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788418259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B1825\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42846985040,"sku":"101-B1825","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b1825-1500px.png?v=1776975380"},{"product_id":"101-b2027","title":"Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army, Volume 3, December 19, 1777-June 19, 1778","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"it is a general Calamity\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe intent of this effort is to present a selection of these, in the third of several such volumes, to allow greater understanding and appreciation of the Valley Forge Encampment. Tardy and insufficient pay is the cause of frequent complaints from the common soldiers, as was the problem of the \"country people\" trading with the enemy in Philadelphia. In contrast, from the distance of more than two hundred years, the bickering and jealousies of some of the officers seem both trivial and all too human.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments are arranged chronologically, and the original spelling and punctuation has been retained. A descriptive note at the foot of each entry gives the source location of each document, and identifies the writer and recipient the first time each individual appears. 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Though reluctant to take the assignment, he did accept, and wrote his wife he was drawn into \"the boisterous noisy, fatiguing unnatural and disrelishing state of War and slaughter\" in order to \"be of some service to the Prisoners\" and \"to watch the Military and to preserve the Civil Rights of my Fellow Citizens.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoudinot faced the task of bringing structure to the confusion that existed with respect to prisoners of war. As his letters show, his problems with prisoner management included trying to feed and clothe our men held by the British, initially in New York, and after September 1777, in Philadelphia. Unlike current protocols, which require the side holding prisoners to provide a certain standard of care, during the Revolutionary War each side was to provide food, clothing, and other aid to its own men while they were held by their adversary. Thus, Boudinot actually had to compete for supplies with men who were purchasing goods for the active duty soldiers at Valley Forge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowledgeable readers will recognize the names of many of the letter recipients: Joshua Loring, William Howe, Henry Clinton, Horatio Gates and others. A descriptive note at the foot of each entry identifies the recipient the first time each individual appears. This book includes a brief history of the Commissary of Prisoners, a document chronology, and a list of further readings on Boudinot and Prisoners of War during the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA valuable addition to your Revolutionary War library! 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A descriptive note at the foot of each entry gives the source location of each document, and identifies the writer and recipient the first time each individual appears. 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In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost--lost, that is, unless his\/her identity is uncovered in the thousands of runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2015, 478 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806357492\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8130\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":22711826186358,"sku":"102-8130","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8130-1500px.png?v=1777310441"},{"product_id":"102-8131","title":"\"Apt to get drunk at all Opportunities\": White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1750-1762","description":"\u003cp\u003ePennsylvania received one-tenth of all male indentured servants from the 1720s through the 1740s, and about one-fifth of the women in that period. According to one authority, over 67,000 German immigrants arrived at the busy port of Philadelphia from 1720 through 1760, at least half of whom were servants. Mr. Boyle's transcription of the runaway ads, taken from fourteen different colonial newspapers (including papers from Massachusetts, Maryland, and New York), provide valuable demographic information on more than 3,000 additional individuals, with name, age, sex, height, place of origin, clothing, occupation, speech, physical imperfections, and sometimes personal vignettes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2015, 485 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806357829\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8131\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":22711827988598,"sku":"102-8131","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8131-1500px.png?v=1777310443"},{"product_id":"102-8149","title":"\"Virginia makes the poorest figure of any State\": The Virginia Infantry at Valley Forge","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book honors the Virginia contingents of the American infantry that served at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, over the winter of 1777-78. The 1st Virginia State Regiment joined General Washington in the summer of 1777. Due to outbreaks of smallpox, desertion, and other factors, Virginia was chronically short of meeting its regimental quotas; consequently, while the Continental Congress had hoped to raise close to 6,000 privates from Virginia, only 1,275 were fit for duty at Valley Forge by May 1778.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe core of the book, the first of a multi-volume work, consists of an alphabetical list of ten of the Virginia infantry regiments at the Valley Forge encampment. Joseph Lee Boyle has abstracted the lists from Revolutionary War muster and payrolls. Each patriot is identified by name, rank, date, and term of enlistment or commission; names of regiment and company; and a variety of supporting details, such as date of furlough or discharge, when wounded, when and where promoted, etc. Mr. Boyle also provides an Introduction describing the history of the Virginia contingent. Included in the book are a detailed glossary of terms found in the rosters; an explanatory list of locations referred to in the entries; and a lengthy, up-to-date bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019, 6\" x 9\", 373 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358901\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8149\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30318504804470,"sku":"102-8149","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8149-1500px.png?v=1777310457"},{"product_id":"102-8148","title":"\"smooth tongued and deceitful\": White New Jersey Runaways, 1767-1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the second and concluding book for New Jersey by author Joseph Lee Boyle, who has also written multiple volumes that identify colonial era runaway servants for Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Mr. Boyle's earlier New Jersey volume covered the period 1720-1766.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhatever the motivation, runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. From the genealogist's standpoint, this presents a methodological problem, since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his\/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost-lost, that is, unless his\/her identity was uncovered in the thousands of, often very detailed, runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.\" And this is precisely where the research and publications of Joseph Lee Boyle come in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle assembled this list of New Jersey runaways for the period 1767-1783 from \u003cem\u003eThe New-Jersey Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e and 40 other papers published from New England south through Maryland. Among them are the \u003cem\u003eBoston Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Connecticut Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Pennsylvania Evening Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Maryland Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Philadelphia German-language periodical \u003cem\u003eDer Wochentliche Pennsyvlanische Staatsbote\u003c\/em\u003e. Although we will never know precisely how many New Jersey indentured servants and other runaways fled their masters, Mr. Boyle has transcribed over a thousand ads for missing persons, referencing more than 3,000 persons with New Jersey connections, including this one:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eRun away from his bail, in July, 1771, a certain man, named WILLIAM HOPKINS (but it is likely he has changed it to WILLIAM WOOD) a middle aged man, about 5 feet 10 inches high, of a dark complexion, wears his hair tied behind, short fore-teeth, stoop shouldered, and commonly followed ditching; had on, when he went away, a light coloured coat, leather breeches, and a half-worn castor hat. Whoever takes up the said William Hopkins, and secures him in any of his Majesty's goals, shall have FIFTY SHILLINGS reward, and reasonable charged, paid by JOHN McCUNE.—\u003cem\u003eThe Pennsylvania Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, December 23, 1772; January 6, 1773; January 27, 1773. See \u003cem\u003eThe Pennsylvania Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, October 28, 1772, From Tues., December 26, 1771 to Tues., January 1, 1772.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis compilation lists only white male and female runaways; however, for those ads where white and black runaways are listed together, blacks are so identified in the index at the back of the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019, paper, 440 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358864\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8148\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30318782152822,"sku":"102-8148","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8148-1500px.png?v=1776983642"},{"product_id":"102-8150","title":"\"Stiles himself a Prize fighter\": New-York Runaways, 1706-1768","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle has heretofore faithfully transcribed runaway servant ads placed in the colonial newspapers for the Middle Atlantic colonies of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. With this book, he picks up the trail of servants who ran away from a New York master or servants having another connection to New York.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the genealogist's standpoint, the runaway poses a methodological problem, since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his\/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost-lost, that is, unless his\/her identity was uncovered in the thousands of, often very detailed, runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.\" And this is precisely where the research and publications of Joseph Lee Boyle come in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle assembled this list of New York runaways for the period 1706-1768 from \u003cem\u003eThe New-York Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New-York Weekly Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New-York Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, and 27 other papers published from New England south through Maryland. Among those are the \u003cem\u003eBoston Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Connecticut Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Maryland Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe American Weekly Mercury\u003c\/em\u003e. Although we will never know precisely how many New York indentured servants and other runaways fled their masters-the first New York newspaper did not commence until 1726-Mr. Boyle has transcribed upwards of 1,500 ads for missing persons, referencing more than 3,000 persons with New York connections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle's fascinating Introduction to this volume not only explains his methodology but also provides fascinating glimpses of the runaways and their motivations. Here is a sampling: \"J. Sebastian Stephany recorded his 'Negro Fellow' Pompey ran away, though his left Legg is a wooden one. . . . A Negro man named Scipio ran away though he 'had his arms pinioned behind him.' Eva Hukel, a runaway German servant girl was only twelve years old. . . . Alexander McCormack, a Ditcher was advertised in New Jersey but 'has a Wife in New York, named Mary, with a Son about 18 Months old.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBesides white male and female runaways, this work cites a number of runaway apprentices, both men and women, military deserters, horse thieves, burglars, jailbreakers, and perpetrators of serious offenses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2020, paper, 442 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359038\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8150\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32057007865974,"sku":"102-8150","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8150-1500px.png?v=1776983640"},{"product_id":"102-8151","title":"\"Fond of liquor, dancing and gaming\": New-York Runaways, 1769-1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work marks the second and concluding volume of New York runaway servant ads compiled by Joseph Lee Boyle from contemporary newspapers. From the genealogist's standpoint, the runaway poses a methodological problem, since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his\/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost-lost, that is, unless his\/her identity was uncovered in the thousands of, often very detailed, runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.And this is precisely where the research and publications of Joseph Lee Boyle come in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle assembled this list of New York runaways for the period 1769-1783 from \u003cem\u003eThe New-York Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New-York Weekly Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New-York Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Mercury\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Morning Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Packet and American Advertiser\u003c\/em\u003e, and 40 other papers published from New England south through Maryland. Among those are the \u003cem\u003eBoston Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Connecticut Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Maryland Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe American Weekly Mercury\u003c\/em\u003e. In all, Mr. Boyle has transcribed upwards of 1,400 ads for missing persons, referencing about 3,000 persons with New York connections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach ad conveys a number of details about the runaway and his\/her master, including names and aliases of the runaway, physical description, personality quirks if any, location in New York, and where to contact the advertiser. Besides indentured servants and runaway slaves, Mr. Boyle includes ads for military deserters, horse thieves, counterfeiters, burglars, jail breakers, an occasional murderer, enemies of the United States, in this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2020, paper, 406 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8151\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32096760823926,"sku":"102-8151","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8151-1500px.png?v=1777310457"},{"product_id":"102-8152","title":"\"much given to Talk and bad Company\": New-England Runaways, 1704-1754","description":"\u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle, who has heretofore extracted the runaway servant newspaper ads for the Middle Atlantic colonies\/states (MD, DE, NJ, PA and NY), now turns his attention to New England. The majority of the individuals in this compilation are runaway servants and slaves, but a number are runaway apprentices or military deserters, with horse thieves, counterfeiters, burglars, jail breakers, an occasional murderer, and other lowlifes represented as well as supposedly errant spouses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe advertisers discovered that tracking an individual by name often led to a dead end, particularly since multiple names were common and middle names were not often used at this time. For example, one listing says that Jonathan Lawrence was the victim of a theft by a man who \"calls himself by several Names, viz. John St. Ambrose, or John Ambrose, but changes his Name as suits him best.\" Runaway ladies used multiple names, such as \"a Woman who goes by the Name of Elizabeth Richardson, but her true Name is suppos'd to be Mary Rogers, and is a noted Thief, and was committed for several Thefts.\" Researchers should also be prepared for phonetic spellings of people they are interested in, for example Wamscom\/Wombscom, Bargary\/Bargery and Jonson\/Johnston\/Johnson. This work also includes individuals with New England connections who did not run away from those colonies (e.g., Newal Coomes was advertised in New York as \"an New-England man\" who \"pretends to be a Doctor.\").\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis compilation lists all individuals mentioned in the advertisements. If an individual is listed with more than one name, all the names appear in the index. In compiling the work, Mr. Boyle examined 23 newspapers from New England to Maryland. Each ad conveys a number of details about the runaway and his\/her master, including names and aliases of the runaway, physical description, personality quirks (if any), location in New England (including the future states of Vermont and Maine), and where to contact the advertiser. In all, this book contains about 1,500 runaway ads and names over 3,000 persons with connections to colonial New England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2020, paper, 434 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8152\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32204793184374,"sku":"102-8152","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8152-1500px.png?v=1777310459"},{"product_id":"101-b9713","title":"\"The distresses of the Army\": The Ephraim Blaine Letters, 1780-1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the many forgotten heroes of the American Revolution are the commissaries, the hundreds of men who worked to supply the fighting men with arms, clothing and food. The commissaries were an absolutely vital link in winning the war. Consider the difficulties in supplying an army of more than 17,000 men in an era when transportation and communication could only be conducted by horseback or wagon, and there was great food spoilage due to primitive preservation techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of the most persevering commissaries in feeding the Continental Army was Ephraim Blaine (1741-1808) of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This work presents his letters from 1780 through 1783. Most of the letters, referred to as the Commissary of Purchases letters, were written by Blaine; some were written by his chief clerk, George Morton. Blaine's frustration with the job can be judged by some of the letters herein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Introduction provides a brief history of the Commissary Department describing its creation and its many internal problems. The index includes the names of all persons mentioned, as well as subjects and supplies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle is the author of several Heritage Books about the Revolutionary War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2021, paper, 420 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556137136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B9713\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39441314054262,"sku":"101-B9713","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b9713-1500px.png?v=1776975982"},{"product_id":"102-8155","title":"\"very apt to speak one side of the truth\": New-England Runaways, 1774-1777","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work marks Joseph Lee Boyle's fourth volume of colonial New England runaways, as identified in contemporary newspaper ads. (The first three volumes covered the period 1704-1754, 1755-1768, and 1769-1773 respectively.) The majority of the individuals in this compilation are runaway servants and slaves, but a number are runaway apprentices-both men and women—and military deserters, with horse thieves, counterfeiters, burglars, jail breakers, an occasional murderer, and other lowlifes represented, as well as quite a few allegedly errant spouses. This volume also contains ads for runaways who did not originate in New England, but who had connections there. A number of the runaways were skilled, including butchers, bakers, coopers, carpenters, joiners, farriers, shoemakers and tailors, no doubt reflecting New England's more settled society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCuriously, several ads seem to have been intended to let the runaways know how little the master thought of them as very low rewards were posted. In 1774, Jesse Kimball advertised for his apprentice, Nathan Estry, but offered only \"One Shilling reward, but No Charges.\" The next year, David Robinson offered \"three Spanish Potatoes Reward\" for William Jenneis, a runaway boy. Hezekiah Stevens offered only \"ONE PENNY Lawful Money REWARD\" for his apprentice John Campbell. The printers of \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Evening Post\u003c\/em\u003e offered but \"ONE PENNY\" for apprentice James Hogan, who had developed great proficiency in \"Profaneness, Lying, and some ancient and modern Vices.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis compilation lists all individuals mentioned in the ads. If an individual is listed with more than one name, all the names appear in the index. While many of the Negroes and some Indians are listed as slaves, many are not, so they may have been paid servants. In compiling the present work, Mr. Boyle examined over a score of newspapers from New England to Maryland, including \u003cem\u003eThe Boston News-Letter, The Boston Post-Boy, The Boston Gazette, The Connecticut Courant, The Connecticut Gazette, The Massachusetts Spy, The New Hampshire Gazette, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The New York Gazette, and The Maryland Gazette.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach ad in this collection conveys a number of details about the runaway and his\/her master, including names and aliases of the runaway, physical description, personality quirks if any, location in New England (including the future states of Vermont and Maine), and where to contact the advertiser. In all, this book contains about 1,200 ads and names over 2,200 persons with connections to colonial New England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2022, 334 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8155\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39800740249718,"sku":"102-8155","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8155-1500px.png?v=1776888434"},{"product_id":"102-8156","title":"\"Wasteing my Substance by Riotous living\": New-England Runaways, 1778-1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work marks the fifth and concluding volume in Mr. Boyle's series of colonial New England runaways, as identified in contemporary newspaper ads (the first four volumes covered the periods 1704-1754, 1755-1768, 1769-1773, and 1774-1777). The majority of the persons in this compilation are runaway servants and slaves, as well as apprentices, military and naval deserters, horse thieves, counterfeiters, burglars, jail breakers, and murderers. A number of the runaways were skilled, including butchers, bakers, coopers, carpenters, joiners, farriers, paper makers, shoemakers, and tailors, no doubt reflecting New England's more settled society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle examined thirty newspapers, from New England to Maryland, including \u003cem\u003eThe Vermont Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Evening Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Connecticut Courant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Connecticut Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Essex Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Massachusetts Spy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Hampshire Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Newport Mercury\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePennsylvania Ledger\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Norwich Packet\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Maryland Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach ad gives a number of details about the runaway and his\/her master, including names and aliases of the runaway, physical description, personality quirks if any, location in New England (including the future states of Vermont and Maine), and where to contact the advertiser. This book contains about 1,200 ads and names over 2,200 persons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2022, paper, 318 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8156\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39800777015414,"sku":"102-8156","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8156-1500px.png?v=1776888476"},{"product_id":"102-9946","title":"\"He Loves a Good Deal of Rum\": Military Desertions During the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Volume 1: 1775-June 30, 1777","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne expert estimates that as many as 25 percent of the men who enlisted in the cause of American Independence ultimately deserted the ranks. As Joseph Lee Boyle explains in the trenchant Introduction to his two-volume work \u003ci\u003e\"He Loves a Good Deal of Rum\"\u003c\/i\u003e a number of factors coalesced to foster this problem. Short-term enlistments were the norm, causing some soldiers to take a casual attitude about remaining in the ranks for their full term. Others fled the service in response to harsh punishments meted out for relatively minor crimes. \"Hardships due to poor or non-existent food and clothing, infrequent paydays and those in the face of rampant inflation, fear of combat, homesickness, family problems, crowded unsanitary life in camp, and rampant disease were all contributing factors to soldiers refusing to join or abruptly leaving military life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoldiers deserted from all theaters of the Revolution, although roughly as many deserted during the first two years of the war as in the period after June 1777, as the Patriot army became more professionalized. When soldiers ran away, a designated officer placed an advertisement in the local newspaper describing the deserter in considerable detail and offering a reward for his capture. Those advertisements comprise the basis for Mr.Boyle's new two-volume series, which is nothing less than a complete transcription of all the desertion notices found in 38 newspapers published from Massachusetts to North Carolina from 1775 to 1783.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach notice in \u003ci\u003e\"He Loves a Good Deal of Rum\"\u003c\/i\u003e describes the individual by physical features, his place of birth or last residence, occupation, company served in, date missing, and other characteristics. The index at the back of each volume lists every full name given in the notices, or roughly 7,500 names in all. Following is a notice that may be considered representative for the work as a whole:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Deserted from my company, in Col. Craft's battalion of colony train of artillery, Michael Carrick, 31 years of age, about 5 foot 8 inches high, with a cut over his right eye brow, well set, black hair, and buck skin breeches. He had on a grey out side jacket and striped waist coat, a new cotton shirt, and carried away with him a French musket and bayonet. Any person who shall stop said deserter and thief, shall have a reward of FOUR DOLLARS, and all charges paid by JOSEPH BALCH.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Gazette and Country Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, July 22, 1776; July 29, 1776.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2009, paper, 383 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806354033\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9946\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39925764882550,"sku":"102-9946","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9946-1500px.png?v=1777310909"},{"product_id":"102-9947","title":"\"He Loves a Good Deal of Rum\": Military Desertions During the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Volume 2: June 30, 1777-1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne expert estimates that as many as 25 percent of the men who enlisted in the cause of American Independence ultimately deserted the ranks. As Joseph Lee Boyle explains in the trenchant Introduction to his two-volume work \u003ci\u003e\"He Loves a Good Deal of Rum\"\u003c\/i\u003e a number of factors coalesced to foster this problem. Short-term enlistments were the norm, causing some soldiers to take a casual attitude about remaining in the ranks for their full term. Others fled the service in response to harsh punishments meted out for relatively minor crimes. \"Hardships due to poor or non-existent food and clothing, infrequent paydays and those in the face of rampant inflation, fear of combat, homesickness, family problems, crowded unsanitary life in camp, and rampant disease were all contributing factors to soldiers refusing to join or abruptly leaving military life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoldiers deserted from all theaters of the Revolution, although roughly as many deserted during the first two years of the war as in the period after June 1777, as the Patriot army became more professionalized. When soldiers ran away, a designated officer placed an advertisement in the local newspaper describing the deserter in considerable detail and offering a reward for his capture. Those advertisements comprise the basis for Mr.Boyle's new two-volume series, which is nothing less than a complete transcription of all the desertion notices found in 38 newspapers published from Massachusetts to North Carolina from 1775 to 1783.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach notice in \u003ci\u003e\"He Loves a Good Deal of Rum\"\u003c\/i\u003e describes the individual by physical features, his place of birth or last residence, occupation, company served in, date missing, and other characteristics. The index at the back of each volume lists every full name given in the notices, or roughly 7,500 names in all. Following is a notice that may be considered representative for the work as a whole:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Deserted from my company, in Col. Craft's battalion of colony train of artillery, Michael Carrick, 31 years of age, about 5 foot 8 inches high, with a cut over his right eye brow, well set, black hair, and buck skin breeches. He had on a grey out side jacket and striped waist coat, a new cotton shirt, and carried away with him a French musket and bayonet. \"Any person who shall stop said deserter and thief, shall have a reward of FOUR DOLLARS, and all charges paid by JOSEPH BALCH.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Gazette and Country Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, July 22, 1776; July 29, 1776.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2009, paper, 345 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806354040\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9947\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39925765341302,"sku":"102-9947","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9947-1500px.png?v=1777310912"},{"product_id":"102-8157","title":"\"He Loves a Good Deal of Rum\": Military Desertions During the American Revolution, 1775-1783: Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume Three of deserter ads is the final volume in this series. It is based on an examination of thirty-eight newspapers published from Massachusetts to South Carolina between 1775 and 1783. Included in this volume's list of newspapers for the first time are issues of the \u003cem\u003eVirginia Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e. As Virginia allowed officials from South Carolina and Georgia to recruit in Virginia, readers will discover many deserters from units for those two states in the pages of the\u003cem\u003e Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e. Though most of the deserters named in this volume are from various American units, British, German, and French ones are also included, as well as naval deserters from both sides of the conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoldiers deserted from all theaters of the Revolution, although roughly as many deserted during the first two years of the war as in the period after June 1777, as the Patriot army became more professionalized. When soldiers ran away, a designated officer placed an advertisement in the local newspaper describing the deserter in considerable detail and offering a reward for his capture. Each ad describes the deserter by physical features, his place of birth or last residence, occupation, company served in, date missing, and other characteristics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2022, paper, 356 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359540\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8157\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40029848469622,"sku":"102-8157","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8157-1500px.png?v=1777310462"},{"product_id":"102-8153","title":"\"He is a person of very ill fame\": New-England Runaways, 1755-1768","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work marks Joseph Lee Boyle's second volume of colonial New England runaways, as identified in contemporary newspaper ads. (\u003ca href=\"\/products\/102-8152\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" much given to talk and bad company new-england runaways rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe first volume\u003c\/a\u003e covered the period 1704-1754.) The majority of the individuals in this compilation are runaway servants and slaves, but a number are runaway apprentices and military deserters, with horse thieves, counterfeiters, burglars, jail breakers, an occasional murderer, supposedly errant spouses, and other lowlifes represented.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome, though not all, of Mr. Boyle's runaways are well described. For example, Deserter Benjamin Furrow was missing the thumb of his left hand; John Nicholas \"has a large scar on the forehead between him eyes, which he says was made with a cutlass\"; and John Rimner was \"marked and scarred very much with the King's Evil under his Chin and on his Neck.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn compiling the present work, Mr. Boyle examined 25 newspapers from New England to Maryland. Each ad conveys a number of details about the runaway and his\/her master, including names and aliases of the runaway, physical description, personality quirks if any, location in New England (including the future states of Vermont and Maine), and where to contact the advertiser. In all, this book contains about 1,500 runaway ads and names over 3,000 persons with connections to colonial New England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2021, paper, 418 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8153\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40128428572790,"sku":"102-8153","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8153-1500px.png?v=1777310460"},{"product_id":"102-8158","title":"\"Famous for inventing Lies\": Pennsylvania Runaways, 1784-1790","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor many years, Mr. Boyle has assembled the names of servants whose runaway status was advertised in colonial and Revolutionary-era American newspapers. Mr. Boyle has produced multiple volumes of runaway collections for Pennsylvania, as well as Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and New England. The Pennsylvania book at hand marks the first collection of runaways based on newspaper ads placed following the Treaty of Paris of 1783 that concluded the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe runaway ads abstracted for this new volume are more diverse than have appeared in previous ones. For instance, multiple ads for slave and Native American runaways appear, and they are identified by race and surname (when available). The Pennsylvania Slave Act, passed on March 19, 1780, which was the first extensive abolition legislation in the western hemisphere, likely encouraged some African Americans to seek their freedom in Pennsylvania. The act stopped the importation of slaves into the state, required all slaves to be registered, and established that all children born in the state were free, regardless of race or parentage. Many of the newspaper ads provide distinctive physical features of the escapees, such as \"a slow hobbling gait\" or \"his feet remarkably deformed,\" or \"both his arms are marked with the letters W. H.\" As he has with previous books, Mr. Boyle has included ads placed by men whose spouses \"eloped\" from them for one reason or another.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle's transcriptions of the runaway ads, taken from twenty-eight different newspapers (including papers from Rhode Island to Virginia, as well as Pennsylvania), provide valuable demographic information, giving name, age, sex, height, place of origin, clothing, occupation, speech, physical imperfections, and sometimes personal vignettes. Individuals whose very existence would have been hidden from us in late 18th-century newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2024, paper, 464 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359670\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8158\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40483823190134,"sku":"102-8158","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8158-1500px.png?v=1781379491"},{"product_id":"102-8132","title":"\"Much given to Liquor, and chewing Tobacco\": White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1763-1768","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe demand for labor in the colonial period was such that by 1775 an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 indentured persons had been transported to America. The majority of these individuals were indigent, eager for a better life in the New World and willing to work off the cost of their passage by reimbursing ships' captains or others by the sweat of their brow. Other servants-especially after England's Transportation Act of 1718 opened the floodgates for exiled criminals-were in America to work off their prison sentences. This combined labor pool was vital to economic life of the Middle Colonies, including Pennsylvania, which received a significant population of German servants, also known as redemptioners.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhatever the motivation, runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. From the genealogist's standpoint, this presents a methodological problem since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his\/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost-lost, that is, unless his\/her identity is uncovered in the thousands of runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.\" And this is precisely where the research and publications of Joseph Lee Boyle come in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe work at hand marks the seventh collection of runaway servant ads for the Chesapeake region compiled by Joseph Lee Boyle. In the process he has combed scores of 18th-century newspapers for references to missing servants. After publishing three collections of runaway servant ads pertaining to Maryland runaways from 1720 through 1774, and a single volume on Delaware for 1720-1783, he has now moved on to Pennsylvania; \u003ci\u003e\"much given to Liquor, and chewing Tobacco.\" White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1763-1768\u003c\/i\u003e marks the third volume of Pennsylvania advertisements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor this compilation the author has listed only white male and female runaways; however, for those ads where white and black runaways are listed together, blacks are so identified in the index at the back of the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2016, paper, 533 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358079\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8132\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40634497564790,"sku":"102-8132","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8132-1500px.png?v=1777310443"},{"product_id":"102-8133","title":"\"Much addicted to strong drink and swearing\": White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1769-1772","description":"\u003cp\u003eRunaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. From the genealogist's standpoint, this presents a methodological problem since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his\/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost-lost, that is, unless his\/her identity is uncovered in the thousands of runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.\" And this is precisely where the research and publications of Joseph Lee Boyle come in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the eighth collection of runaway servant ads for the Chesapeake region compiled by Joseph Lee Boyle, and it covers Pennsylvania ads for the years 1769-1772. One such Pennsylvania runaway, Hopkins Drive, ran away thirty-three times. Another, Edward Farl, was described as \"a gallows-looking lying drunken fellow.\" Female runaways included Elizabeth Eckrine, \"a thick clumsy ill-tongued slut,\" and Jennet Scott, who \"was very fond of all sorts of men.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs Mr. Boyle points out in his very helpful introduction, Pennsylvania received one-tenth of all male indentured servants from the 1720s through the 1740s, and about one-fifth of the women in that period. According to one authority, over 67,000 German immigrants arrived at the busy port of Philadelphia from 1720 through 1760, at least half of whom were servants. Mr. Boyle's transcription of the runaway ads is taken from twenty-four different colonial newspapers, including papers from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, and New York, as well as one German-language tabloid. The ads provide valuable demographic information on more than 2,500 additional individuals, with name, age, sex, height, place of origin, clothing, occupation, speech, physical imperfections, and sometimes personal vignettes and even poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor this compilation the author has listed only white male and female runaways; however, for those ads where white and black runaways are listed together, blacks are so identified in the index at the back of the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2016, paper, 466 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8133\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40634579746934,"sku":"102-8133","price":49.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8133-1500px.png?v=1777310445"},{"product_id":"102-8134","title":"\"Much given to Strong Liquor, and low company\": White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1773-1775","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe demand for labor in the colonial period was such that by 1775 an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 indentured persons had been transported to America. The majority of these individuals were indigent, eager for a better life in the New World and willing to work off the cost of their passage by reimbursing ships' captains or others by the sweat of their brow. Other servants-especially after England's Transportation Act of 1718 opened the floodgates for exiled criminals-were in America to work off their prison sentences. This combined labor pool was vital to economic life of the Middle Colonies, including Pennsylvania, which received a significant population of German servants, also known as redemptioners.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiven the scale of indentured servitude, runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. In the years immediately prior to the American Revolution, as this volume of colonial Pennsylvania runaways illustrates, the phenomenon of runaway servants was clearly on the rise. More Pennsylvanians fled indentured servitude between 1773 and 1775 than during any comparable three-year period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the genealogist's standpoint, this presents a methodological problem since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his\/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost-lost, that is, unless his\/her identity is uncovered in the thousands of runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnter Joseph Lee Boyle with his fifth collection of runaway servant ads for colonial Pennsylvanians, in this case spanning the tumultuous years 1773-1775. Mr. Boyle's transcriptions of the runaway ads, taken from thirty-two different colonial newspapers (including papers from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and New York), provide valuable demographic information on about 3,500 additional individuals, with name, age, sex, height, plate of origin, clothing, occupation, speech, physical imperfections, and sometimes personal vignettes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor this compilation the author has listed only white male and female runaways; however, for those ads where white and black runaways are listed together, blacks are so identified in the index at the back of the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2017, paper, 530 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8134\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40634691616886,"sku":"102-8134","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8134-1500px.png?v=1777310446"},{"product_id":"102-8135","title":"\"she snuffs, drinks and smokes\": White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1776-1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe demand for labor in the colonial period was such that by 1775 an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 indentured persons had been transported to America. Given the scale of indentured servitude, runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book, Joseph Lee Boyle's sixth collection of runaway servant ads for 18th-century Pennsylvanians, spans the era of the American Revolution. Mr. Boyle's transcriptions of the runaway ads, taken from thirty-three different colonial newspapers (including papers from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey, as well as Pennsylvania), provide valuable demographic information on about 2,800 additional individuals, with name, age, sex, height, plate of origin, clothing, occupation, speech, physical imperfections, and sometimes personal vignettes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince the Continental Army and the militia of the various states suffered from a chronic shortage of manpower, many servants and apprentices served. As Joseph J. Ellis recently wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The hard core of the Continental Army was eventually comprised of misfits–indentured servants, recently arrived immigrants, emancipated slaves, unemployed artisans.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis work includes individuals with Pennsylvania connections who did not run away in that state. For example, though he broke out of jail in Gloucester, New Jersey, Henry Lane is included in this collection as he \"served part of his apprenticeship\" in Philadelphia. William Pike was one of the \"Philadelphia Exiles\" who had been sent as prisoners to Winchester, Virginia in 1777. He escaped from there in February 1778, and as a native of Pennsylvania is included herein. Fifteen-year-old Joseph Paterson left his master in Burlington County in June 1778, and William Evans considered it \"likely he will go towards Lancaster in Pennsylvania, as he has a brother that way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis compilation lists only white men and women, though blacks in the same ad are included.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2017, paper, 412 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358550\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8135\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40635280425078,"sku":"102-8135","price":49.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8135-1500px.png?v=1777310447"},{"product_id":"102-9866","title":"\"Death Seem'd to Stare\": The New Hampshire and Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Death Seem'd to Stare\"\u003c\/i\u003e marks Joseph Lee Boyle's third book honoring the identities of the heroes of the six-month encampment at Valley Forge in 1777-1778. His previous volumes, \u003ci\u003eFire Cake and Water\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Can't Brave Americans Endure?\u003c\/i\u003e identify the Connecticut and New Jersey soldiers, respectively, who were among the 30,000 individuals whose names appear on the National Archives muster and payroll records of the beleaguered Valley Forge encampment. This volume examines the New Hampshire and Rhode Island contingents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle's informative Introduction traces the service of the New Hampshire and Rhode Island regiments before and after they joined General Washington in November 1777. The New Hampshire units, for example, fought opposite portions of General Burgoyne's army at Hubbardton, Vermont; and, later, under General Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Freeman's Farm. For their part, the Rhode Island regiments participated in the American defeat of a Hessian assault on Fort Mercer, New Jersey, in October of the same year. During the Valley Forge winter of 1778, however, \"virtually half the New Hampshire units were destitute of any kind of shoes or stockings to their feet.\" Their Rhode Island counterparts \"at this Sevear Season of the year, are, the greatest part of them almost Stark naked, Destitute of Every necessary of life . . . .\" Despite these privations, the New Hampshire regiments would later fight victoriously at the Battle of Newtown in 1779. At the Battle of Rhode Island, in August 1778, \"The first Rhode Island distinguished itself, and the bravery of the Black soldiers was praised by a number of officers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike the other two books, the core of \u003ci\u003e\"Death Seem'd to Stare\"\u003c\/i\u003e consists of an alphabetical list in excess of 2,500 New Hampshire and Rhode Island soldiers abstracted from Revolutionary War muster and payrolls. Each patriot is identified by name, rank, date, and term of enlistment or commission, names of regiment and company, and a variety of supporting details, such as date of furlough or discharge, when wounded, when and where promoted, etc. In support of the abstracts, the author has prepared a detailed glossary of terms found in the rosters, an explanatory list of locations referred to in the entries, and a lengthy, up-to-date bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike its predecessors, \u003ci\u003e\"Death Seem'd to Stare\"\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the most critical moments in the American past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2005, paper, 207 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806352671\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9866\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41579949097078,"sku":"102-9866","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9866-1500px.png?v=1777310883"},{"product_id":"102-8159","title":"\"They are all noted villains\": Maryland Runaways, 1782-1788","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the fifth volume compiled by Mr. Boyle containing 18th-century Maryland runaway servant ads posted in local newspapers. It follows runaways from the final years of the American Revolution to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. While most of these ads concern runaway servants, apprentices and slaves, quite a few name lawbreakers, both men and women, horse thieves, an occasional murderer, and other lowlifes. Most of the crimes beyond running away pertained to thefts of clothing or money.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to an individual's age and whereabouts, the ads tell a great deal more about the character and physical appearance of runaways than we are accustomed to learning from most source records. While many of the physical descriptions found in the ads are generic, some stand out. One was Michael Toole with \"fore teeth like a hog's tusks.\" Irishman Daniel Dunleavy had a scar on his face \"and marked with gunpowder all over it, by firing a blast in his hands\". A Black slave named Joe \"has a remarkable seam on one side of his head, occasioned by the cut of a hand-saw.\" Advertisements by men whose spouses \"eloped\" from them are included. Francis Brumfield reported that wife Elizabeth \"eloped from my bed and board without any provocation\" and forbade anyone to deal with her. Adam Strickstroke's wife, Otillow, eloped and \"carried with her my Bed, Furniture and several other Articles.\" Black slaves and Indians listed in these advertisements are listed by race as well as by surname, when one is given.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn preparing this latest volume in the series, Mr. Boyle consulted more than twenty late 18th-century newspapers from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, as well as from Maryland. Indeed, some runaways made their escape from places beyond their base in Maryland. The roughly 1,000 ads found here name close to 4,000 persons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2024, paper, 442 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359694\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8159\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41779995869302,"sku":"102-8159","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8159-1500px.png?v=1777310465"},{"product_id":"102-8154","title":"\"can tell an ample story\": New-England Runaways, 1769-1773","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work marks Joseph Lee Boyle's third volume of colonial New England runaways, as identified in contemporary newspaper ads. (The first two volumes covered the period 1704-1754 and 1755-1768, respectively.) The majority of the individuals in this compilation are runaway servants and slaves, but a number are runaway apprentices, both men and women, and military deserters, with horse thieves, counterfeiters, burglars, jail breakers, an occasional murderer, and other lowlifes represented, as well as quite a few allegedly errant spouses. This volume also contains ads for runaways who did not originate in New England but who had connections there. A number of the runaways were skilled, including butchers, bakers, coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers, and tailors, no doubt reflecting the region's more urban economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome were well described, some not at all. Indented servant John Folsom \"had a remarkable homely Countenance.\" Sarah Kelly, in describing the woman who ran away with her \"loving husband,\" referred to that woman's \"short flat Nose, like the Nose of a Skunk, with a scalded Head, has the Itch, and is lousey, very much given to lying and whoring.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis compilation lists all individuals mentioned. If an individual is listed with more than one name, all the names appear in the index. Mr. Boyle examined 28 newspapers from New England to Maryland, including \u003cem\u003eThe Boston News-Letter, The Boston Post-Boy, The Boston Gazette, The Connecticut Courant, The Connecticut Gazette, The Massachusetts Spy, The New Hampshire Gazette, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The New York Gazette,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Maryland Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach ad conveys a number of details about the runaway and his\/her master, including names and aliases of the runaway, physical description, personality quirks if any, location in New England (including the future states of Vermont and Maine), and where to contact the advertiser. In all, this book contains about 1,200 ads and names over 2,200 persons with connections to colonial New England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2021, paper, 328 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8154\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41851215052918,"sku":"102-8154","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8154-1500px.png?v=1777310462"},{"product_id":"102-8147","title":"\"great Lovers of Drink\": White New Jersey Runaways, 1720-1766","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor Joseph Lee Boyle, who has written multiple volumes that identify colonial-era runaway servants in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, now turns his attention to the colony of New Jersey. Whatever the motivation, runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. From the genealogist's standpoint, this presents a methodological problem, since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his\/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost–lost, that is, unless his\/her identity was uncovered in the thousands of, often very detailed, runaway ads placed in colonial newspapers by the disgruntled \"owners.\" And this is precisely where the research and publications of Joseph Lee Boyle come in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince New Jersey had no newspapers at this time, Mr. Boyle assembled this list of New Jersey runaways for the period 1720-1766 from advertisements in no fewer than thirty papers published from New England south through Maryland. Among the papers are the \u003ci\u003eBoston Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConnecticut Courant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePennsylvania Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaryland Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Philadelphia German-language periodical \u003ci\u003eDer Wochentliche Pennsyvlanische Staatsbote\u003c\/i\u003e. Although we will never know precisely how many New Jersey indentured servants and other runaways fled their masters, Mr. Boyle has transcribed several thousand ads for missing persons with New Jersey connections. Here's just one of them:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRun-away from Sanuel Dennis Jun, of Shrewsberry in Monmouth County, the 18th of December 1772, [sic] a Servant Man named James M'Curdy, aged about 22 Years. He came from Ireland in the Vessel that was Cast away the 9th of this Month at Mannisssquan, He is of a low Stature Indiferent thick set, Speaks English and Irish, he can Read and Write, He has with him some Books, two or three Shirts, a large felt Hat, an old Yellowish Wig, black short hair, of a pal Complection [sic] a thread-bare blew Coat the Button holes bound a Cinnamon coloured Vest, an old pair of Leather Breeches, Sheeps colcured [sic] black Stockings with several holes in them and an old pair of round Toe Shoes. Whoever can take up with said servant or secure him so that his Master may have him again shall have a Pistole Reward besides reasonable Charles.–\u003ci\u003eThe American Weekly Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e, from Tues., December 26, 1771 to Tues., January 1, 1722.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor this compilation the author has listed only white male and female runaways; however, for those ads where white and black runaways are listed together, blacks are so identified in the index at the back of the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2018, paper, 330 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358802\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8147\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41851225997430,"sku":"102-8147","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8147-1500px.png?v=1777310455"},{"product_id":"102-8162","title":"\"These are artful villains\": Maryland Runaways, 1789-1794","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work marks the sixth volume of newspaper ads identifying Maryland runaways of the 18th century. The majority of the runaways are servants, apprentices, and slaves; however, also numbered among them are thieves, women who deserted their husbands, military deserters, and one or two murderers. According to Mr. Boyle, “The runaway ads provide a first-hand view of history, as well as valuable demographic information with the age, sex, height, place of origin, clothing, occupation, speech, as well as physical imperfections, etc.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile the majority of the runaways were from Maryland, the author includes out-of-state fugitives when the papers refer to them. Besides the carefully transcribed ads themselves, researchers will benefit from Boyle’s Introduction, extensive bibliography, and a comprehensive name index. Black slaves and Indians mentioned in these advertisements are listed by race as well as by surname, when one is given.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Boyle has transcribed in excess of 1,500 advertisements, naming between 3,000 and 4,000 persons in all. In doing so, Mr. Boyle examined over 40 newspapers covering the Mid-Atlantic region of Virginia, Maryland, Washington, DC, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy one estimate between 350,000 and 500,000 colonists came to America as compulsory laborers. Some came as indentured servants, others as convicts. For the investors who underwrote the transportation of forced labor–brokers, ships’ captains, landowners–the risks to their investment included death in passage, injury, chronic maladies, and running away. Out of necessity, colonial newspapers carried ads offering rewards for the apprehension of runaways and\/or notices about their capture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2025, paper, 456 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359762\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8162\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42574451179638,"sku":"102-8162","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8162-1500px.png?v=1777310469"},{"product_id":"102-9342","title":"\"Fire Cake and Water\": The Connecticut Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment","description":"\u003cp\u003e“While the six-month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1777-1778 has been part of America’s folklore for generations,” author Joseph Boyle writes in his Introduction, “most of the men who served there have remained anonymous. The names of over 30,000 men of all ranks appear on the surviving monthly muster and payroll records. This compilation is the initial effort to recognize some of these heroes of the Revolutionary War.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe are pleased to report that Mr. Boyle has been more than up to the task he has set for himself, for, in a carefully constructed Introduction, he strips away legend from fact in recounting the dreadful encampment of Washington’s army at Valley Forge that began in December 1777 and ended in June of the following year. It is here that we learn how fate conspired to move a number of Connecticut regiments from the Hudson Highlands of New York to the environs of Philadelphia, as well as what would become of them after Valley Forge. The heart of the volume, of course, consists of an alphabetical list of some 4,000 Connecticut soldiers abstracted from Revolutionary War muster and pay rolls at the National Archives. Each patriot is identified by name, rank, date and term of enlistment or commission, name of regiment and company, and a variety of supporting details, such as date of furlough or discharge, when wounded, when and where promoted, etc. In support of the abstracts the author has prepared a detailed glossary of terms found in the rosters, an explanatory list of locations referred to in the entries, and a lengthy, up-to-date bibliography on the topic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFire Cake and Water\u003c\/i\u003e promises to add immeasurably to our understanding of one of the most fateful moments in U.S. history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Lee Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1999), 2004, paper, 232 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806349138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9342\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43240637562998,"sku":"102-9342","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9342-1500px.png?v=1776196767"},{"product_id":"102-8141","title":"\"Our Troops Are in General Almost Naked\": The Delaware and New York Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment, 1777-1778","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book honors the Delaware and New York contingents of the American infantry that served at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Mr. Boyle’s informative introduction traces the service of the regiments before and after they joined General Washington in November 1777. The Delaware units, for example, served with distinction at the Battle of Long Island and other engagements in General Washington’s efforts to hold New York; after Valley Forge, the Delawares served primarily in the southern theater of the war, including at Guilford Court House, Hobkirk’s Hill, and Ninety Six. For their part, the New York regiments took part in the defense of Hudson River prior to wintering at Valley Forge, as well as in the triumphant victory at Yorktown in 1781.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe core of the book consists of an alphabetical list in excess of 2,000 Delaware and New York soldiers abstracted from Revolutionary War muster and payrolls. 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