[compiled by] Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz.
ISBN
0812281454
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
1989.
Physical Description
222 p. : ill., facsims., map ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. [173]-178.
Summary
Reprints ads for runaway slaves in Pennsylvania. Includes a glossary, a name index that permits runaways and owners to be traced over time, a subject index that identifies specific characteristics of escapees, and a final index that notes the names of fugitives and owners who appeared in all the Gazette ads between 1728 and 1790. [from amazon.com]
The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars, from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England
