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 & Dixon), Williamsburg ,
March 22, 1770.

   Forty Shillings Reward. RUN away from the subscriber, in Hanover county, about the first of Sept. a Negro man named WILL, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, a very remarkable fellow, having but one eye. He was outlawed some time before Christmas last. Whoever brings the said Negro to me shall have the above reward, besides what the law allows.
HENRY GILBERT. N.B. He formerly belonged to Arthur Dickenson, in York county.

   Reprint: Windley, vol. 1, pp. 79-80.

advertised in Rind, March 15, 1770. See #v1770030492.
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