Virginia Runaways: Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers.
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Professor Thomas Costa, University of Virginia's College at Wise

Virginia Gazette
(Parks), Williamsburg ,
September 5 to September 12, 1745.

    RAN away from the Subscriber, living in Ware Parish, Gloucester County, on Tuesday the 6th Day of August last, a Negroe Boy, nam'd Sawney; he looks old and wrinkled in the Face, though but very small in Stature, and had a fresh Scar on one of his Cheeks: He had on when he went away, a Pair of old blue Cloth Breeches, and a Hempen Shirt. Some Person had forg'd my Hand, and given him a Pass, but my advertisements happening to get before him, he was taken up at West-Point the Tuesday following, and he made his Escape the same Night, from the Person that had him, about six Miles from home. Whoever secures the said Runaway, so that I may have him again, shall be handsomly rewarded for their Trouble, and all their reasonable Expences bore, by
John Matthews.

   Reprint: Windley, vol. 1, p. 14.

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