"Given to drinking and whoring": White Maryland Runaways, 1720-1762

$59.95

This volume incorporates between 1,500 and 2,000 Maryland runaway servant advertisements--naming 4,000 persons in all--that appeared in nineteen colonial newspapers published in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

Joseph Lee Boyle

2013, paper, 590 pp.

ISBN 9780806356532

102-8070