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 ,
September 6, 1770.

   BUCKINGHAM, August 27, 1770. RUN away from the subscriber, in the lower end of Buckingham county, on James river, about a week ago, a likely squat Negro fellow, very black, and stutters much in speaking. When he went off he wore a coat of cotton, and hempen roll trousers. It is imagined he is lurking about Scotchtown, or some place in the upper part of Hanover county. I will give 5 l. reward to any person that will deliver him safe at my house.
JOHN BATES. N.B. He was seen to have a pass, and by that went for a freeman, by the name of Thomas Scott.

   Reprint: Windley, vol. 1, pp. 84-85.

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