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This tidal wave of involuntary laborers became known, officially and informally, as \"His Majesty's Seven-Year Passengers\": they have been characterized as the largest body of identifiable emigrants ever recorded, but until now, no attempt has been made to bring together the hundreds of individual passenger lists which survive in English and American archives. Some 25,000 passengers are listed here. They are shown alphabetically by surname and in the order of the English cities or counties where they were condemned. A comprehensive list of convict \"runaways\" has been compiled from contemporary Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania newspapers and cross-referenced to the passenger lists. A separate section is devoted to the later careers in the colonies of twenty known felons from England, including one for whom there is some evidence of royal descent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1997), 2006, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 464 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585495825\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-C0582\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32204759138422,"sku":"101-C0582","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-c0582-1500px.png?v=1776976270"},{"product_id":"101-m4001","title":"Runaways of Colonial New Jersey: Indentured Servants, Slaves, Deserters, and Prisoners, 1720-1781","description":"\u003cp\u003eA majority of white immigrants to the American Colonies south of New England—and nearly all the Africans—arrived in some form of servitude, either as indentured servants or slaves. Colonial newspapers often published notices seeking the return of runaway servants or slaves, as well as deserters from the military, escapees from jail and even runaway Native American slaves and servants. The notices of runaways provide clues for genealogists and food for thought for those curious as to how the citizens of America's first century lived. Typically, the notice contained such information about the runaway as to give us a snapshot of him or her. Runaways of Colonial New Jersey condenses nearly 1,500 such New Jersey related advertisements spanning well over sixty years, from 1715 to 1781. Not only do these notices list the names of the runaways and their masters, as well as others of colonial New Jersey, they also provide answers to a variety of other queries. Where was the fugitive's place of origin? What names were in vogue among them? What were their occupations? Were they healthy? What did they look like? Were they tall or short, thin or fat? Age? Did they have any personality quirks? Were they drinkers? Even the ratio of left-handed to right-handed is included. The index contains the names of the 4,280 runaways, masters, sheriffs, commanding officers and others. Richard B. Marrin, a New York City lawyer, is the author of several Heritage Books including Passage Point and A Glance Back in Time; a number of magazine and newspaper articles on the history of New York and New Jersey; as well as articles on the history of business in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard B. 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African American genealogist will find this volume useful in linking slaves to masters, and in some cases to other slaves. However, the laws and institutions governing runaways were not limited to cases of runaway slaves. Deserting seamen, runaway indentured servants, deserting soldiers, and runaway apprentices were also found among the inmates and are include herein. Two types of records are examined here: the \"Runaway Docket,\" and the \"Accommodations Docket.\" The Runaway Docket provides records of persons held in jail under formal charges of violating some phase of the Runaway Laws who were awaiting court action. The Accommodations Docket provides records of persons who were held in jail on the request of slave owners, masters of servants and apprentices, ship's captains, and military officers. In these cases the jail offered a convenient holding place for possible runaways, newly purchased slaves, and military deserters. These laws offer insight into the prevalent community attitudes and practices during the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s, and therefore the first portion of this work comprises a compilation of these laws. The larger share of the volume, the Baltimore City and County Jail Runaway and Accommodation Dockets, 1831-1864, consists of entries that list the prisoner's name, date committed, alleged owner, and disposition. A full name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerry M. 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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.\"\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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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":"102-8148","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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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. 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This information was gathered in \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage\u003c\/em\u003e and its supplements, and ultimately consolidated and published in the CD \u003ci\u003eBritish Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788\u003c\/i\u003e. Recently, using an online index to runaways in eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements, Mr. Coldham has been able to add a final chapter to this body of work, which is presented here under the title \u003ci\u003eMaryland and Virginia Convict Runaways, 1725-1800.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on newspaper advertisements placed in the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eMaryland Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e this fascinating account of over 1,000 runaway convicts contains personal information not likely to be found in any other record, and includes colorful descriptions of the runaways themselves and details of their original offenses. Information furnished in the advertisements was meant to identify the runaway so he could be apprehended and returned, and it runs the gamut from physical descriptions to assessments of personal behavior. Nuggets like the following are not uncommon:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Able . . . Landed from the \u003cem\u003eThornton\u003c\/em\u003e in Anne Arundel Co., VA [sic] in Jul 1771 having a red face and very rotten teeth, a great talker pitted with smallpox.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Alexander . . . Transported in Sep 1767 by the \u003ci\u003eJustitia\u003c\/i\u003e, much pitted with smallpox, wears a sober face and talks little.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Avery . . . Sentenced for stealing a linen sheet and transported to VA in Sep 1767 by the \u003cem\u003eJustitia\u003c\/em\u003e. Scotch convict servant, cunning and artful, recently flogged.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003eNoticeably different from the dry records of the English Assize courts (the source of most information previously published on transported felons), this listing of runaways from newspaper advertisements is as interesting as it is informative, and is a brilliant conclusion to Mr. Coldham's lifetime ambition to bring this little-known episode in American history to light.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2012, paper, 110 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806318912\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-1089\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32148565524598,"sku":"102-1089","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-1089-1500px.png?v=1777309780"},{"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":"GPC","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":"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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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":"102-8153","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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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":"GPC","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":"102-8162","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":"GPC","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"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/runaways\/united-states+african-american.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}