March 7, 1771

The Pennsylvania Gazette

Christiana Bridge, February 13, 1771.

RUN away from the subscriber, last Sunday, a certain EDWARD McCOLGAN, born in Ireland, aged 32 or 33 years, about 5 feet 6 inches high, fresh coloured, has long blackish hair, a little marked with the smallpox, and rocks in his walking:

Had on, when he went away, a light grey napped duffil coat and waistcoat, bound and lined, tape the same colour as the coat, the waistcoat wore a good deal below his breast, light coloured cloth breeches, old blue yarn stockings, new shoes, one buckled with a broad brass buckle, the other tied with a leather string.

Whoever takes up and secures said servant, so that his master may have him again, if within the county of New Castle, [1] shall receive the sum of Forty Shillings, or out of said county, Three Pounds, and reasonable charges, upon delivering him to PATRICK McGONNEGAL. [2]

1. New Castle Delaware was the mid-Atlantic hub of white slavery from the 1710s

2. Increasingly, Irish were trafficked by other Irish as the years wore on in brutal Plantation America.