Click to Subscribe
‘Ran Away from His Master’
Two Lads with two ‘Doges’ on the Loose
© 2017 James LaFond
AUG/24/17
Essex Gazette – Salem, Massachusetts, Tuesday, July 18, 1769,
Robert Kilby
Wilmington, July 17, 1769 [2]
LAST Saturday night at 10 o’clock ran away from his master Cadwallador Ford, of Wilmington,
an indented servant Lad, named Robert Kilby, of short stature, and well fet, of a light complexion and brown hair, near 18 years of age – a new cut upon the fore finger of his right hand. [1]
Had on when he went away, a brownish colour’d camblet coat, lin’d with red, pretty well worn, strip’d linen and woolen jacket, double-breasted, green worsted plush breeches, a pair blue seam’d stockings, one pair light blue worsted stockings, a pair of thick pumps and brass buckles, two tow shirts and one garlic, 2 pair of tow trowsers, and a felt hat.
- Whoever will take up said Run-away, and convey him to, or secure him, so that his master may have him, shalt have TWO DOLLARS Reward and all necessary charges paid, by said CADWALLADOR FORD.
N. B. All masters of vessels and others, are hereby cautioned against harbouring concealing or carrying away said servant on penalty of the Law.
There was with him one Joseph Ross, as he called himself, something taller, and about the same age, supposed to have run away from Ipswich, and to have inticed the said Robert to go with him; they had with them two brownish doges each about as big as a fox.
Notes
1. Likely a defensive wound as most work injuries were to the left hand.
2. The speed at which this news spread seems impossible, unless carrier pigeons were used.
3. Kilby is called a servant, and, since the publication of the King James bible, servant was a widely accepted English term for slave, particularly a white slave owned by a white master.
[Submitted to geneogytrails.com by Mary Kay Krogman]
Stillbirth of a Nation: Caucasian Slavery in Plantation America: Part One
Like a Woman in an SUV
histories
‘Red Hair and Freckled’
eBook
book of nightmares
eBook
sorcerer!
eBook
the first boxers
eBook
sons of aryas
eBook
let the world fend for itself
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
barbarism versus civilization
eBook
son of a lesser god
eBook
uncle satan
eBook
solo boxing
eBook
fate
eBook
winter of a fighting life
eBook
predation
eBook
hate
eBook
menthol rampage
eBook
the greatest lie ever sold
eBook
z-pill forever
eBook
song of the secret gardener
eBook
cracker-boy
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
into leviathan’s maw
eBook
the gods of boxing
eBook
the combat space
eBook
wife—
eBook
broken dance
eBook
advent america
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
the lesser angels of our nature
eBook
songs of aryas
eBook
the year the world took the z-pill
eBook
the greatest boxer
eBook
logic of force
eBook
on combat
eBook
the fighting edge
eBook
honor among men
eBook
ranger?
eBook
taboo you
eBook
thriving in bad places
eBook
within leviathan’s craw
eBook
america the brutal
eBook
logic of steel
eBook
fiction anthology one
eBook
night city
eBook
when you're food
eBook
time & cosmos
eBook
triumph
eBook
orphan nation
eBook
fanatic
eBook
beasts of aryas
eBook
dark, distant futures
eBook
all-power-fighting
eBook
masculine axis
eBook
under the god of things
eBook
by the wine dark sea
eBook
on the overton railroad
  Add a new comment below:
Name
Email
Message