Virginia Runaways: Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers.
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Virginia Gazette
(Purdie & Dixon), Williamsburg ,
May 7, 1767.

   TAKEN up, in North Carolina, and committed to the publick gaol of Halifax, the 18th of January, a Negro man, about 30 years old, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, much marked with the smallpox, of a yellow complexion, says he belongs to Mr. William Champe, in King George county, on Rappahnnock river, that he was born in the West Indies, and bred up to the water. Also committed, the 27th of April, an outlandish Negro man who calls himself Cuffey, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, says he belongs to Col. Lewis Burwell, and that he ran away from his quarter in Mecklenburg, Virginia. The owners may have them, on proving their property, and paying charges.

   Reprint: not in Windley

See Walsh, Calabar, for more information on Cuffey.

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