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 ,
November 8, 1770.

    RUN away from my plantation in Mecklenburg, about the first of AUGUST last, a negro fellow about 40 years old, 5 feet three inches high, speaks very little ENGLISH, one of his fingers has been hurt, and is much smaller than the rest; he was clothed as field negroes generally are. I imagine he is in North Carolina, as he was taken up in that province and committed to Hertford jail, from whence I got him last December. Whoever will deliver him to BURWELL BROWN on said plantation, or to me near PETERSBURG, shall have 40 s. reward.
PETER JONES.

   Reprint: not in Windley

advertised in Rind, Dec. 7, 1769. See #v1769120420. advertised in Purdie & Dixon, Dec. 7, 1769. See #v1769120369 as running away with another slave.
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