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
(Purdie & Co.), Williamsburg ,
April 4, 1766.

   CHESTERFIELD, March 18, 1766 RUN away from the subscriber, a few days ago, a servant man named JAMES TERRELL, by trade a leather breeches maker, about 21 or 22 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, of a fair complexion, and has a remarkable shake with his head; had on an old narrow broad cloth coat turned, scarlet waistcoat with German serge back, and a pair of leather breeches. Whoever conveys the above servant to Mr. Roger Atkinson, near Petersburg, shall have 5 l. reward, if taken in this colony, if out 10 l.
GEORGE COUSINS.

   Reprint: not in Windley

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