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This 15-year-old girl lived in the Inca empire and was sacrificed 500 years ago as an offering to the gods.
She is preserved this well because she was frozen during sleep and kept in a dry cold condition at more than 6000 meters above sea level all this time. No other treatment was necessary.
Found in 1999 near the top of the Llullaillaco volcano, in northwestern Argentina, she was an archaeological revolution for being one of the best preserved mummies, since there was even blood in her body and her internal organs remained.
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We start Black History Month by sharing the remarkable story of William Cuffey, who was born in 1788 in Kent with a spinal deformity. He was the son of a former slave and became a famed Chartist leader.
Cuffey became politically active through a strike in 1834 and by 1839 he was a Chartist famed for his powerful oratory and leadership. Chartism was a movement for the rights and suffrage of the working class based on the People’s Charter – a petition of six demands for reforms.
In 1848, after Cuffey had been involved in the Chartist Convention, a peaceful march with a 'monster petition', he was accused by a government spy for planning an armed uprising. He was arrested and his trial transcript shows he demanded a fair trial by a jury of peers and equals. This was rejected, and despite his efforts in trying to prove the evidence unreliable and pleading not guilty, Cuffey was charged and faced a death sentence.
In the end, Cuffey was sentenced to transportation for life. In 1849, he set off aboard the Adelaide to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). In 1856, he received a pardon.
Our records show that Cuffey remained in Australia and became an important campaigner. Meanwhile, the Reform Act of 1867 was passed in Britain, allowing all men to vote for the first time.
It is clear that Cuffey was a pioneer of his day. He was a black, disabled, working-class leader, and the historical significance of his life should be recognised.
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Finding out that he was a likely to be trapped by the Italian quarantine, one American tourist tried to evade it by circumventing the authorities.
Travel, harmless fun or psychological disorder?
Feb 16, 2020- Travel
Doctors used to consider a desire for travel a medical illness called ‘dromomania’, or ‘pathological tourism’. I’d never heard this term until it came up in the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. This poses questions. Is the ‘ceaseless desire to travel’ truly a medical condition and, apart from the social and environmental harm air travel and mass tourism is causing across the globe, is it dangerous? If a desire to travel is an illness, is travel itself a cure or a symptom?
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USA JAILS
Maria Morrison, MSW
M.S.W., University of Alabama;
M.F.A. Goddard College; and B.A., University of Montana
For the past 10 years, Maria Morrison has worked as a Senior Social Worker at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a non-profit human rights organization focused on ending mass incarceration. In this role, she is a member of the legal teams representing clients facing excessive sentences, particularly children sentenced to life without parole. She regularly visits prisons throughout the South, providing support services to incarcerated clients. She also provides comprehensive reentry support services to men and women released after decades in prison.
As a PhD student at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Maria's research focuses on trauma among incarcerated men, trauma interventions, prison conditions, and reentry services.
Rev. Dustin R. Feddon
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
M.Div., St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, Boynton Beach, FL
Fr. Dustin Feddon serves at St. Theresa’s parish in the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. He also serves in pastoral ministry to those incarcerated throughout North Florida. In his work among the incarcerated he focuses especially on the needs of those in solitary confinement. He is also working on establishing a ministry called Joseph House which accompanies individuals as they return to society post incarceration. Prior to the priesthood, he received his PhD in the study of Religion with a focus in the area of philosophy and ethics from Florida State University.
Pope Francis has called us to discover ourselves among the peripheries. This is essential to how the Church must respond to the human crisis that is mass incarceration, and we believe our parish communities are well poised to address this crisis.
A process of truth and reconciliation that addresses the history of racial injustice is an integral part of providing services to incarcerated people in 21st century America. Millions of African Americans are denied access to society’s goods through excessive arrests, disproportionate sentencing, inhumane incarceration, and economic and political disenfranchisement. In many impoverished neighborhoods in the U.S., a prison sentence is the norm, almost a rite of passage, for African American youth.
With an alarming 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S. today, the Bureau of Justice Statistics has found that 1 in 3 black male babies born today will be sentenced to prison at some point in their lives. In 2016, black males between 18 and 19 years of age were 12 times as likely as white males of the same age to be imprisoned (BJS, 2018). Preeminent civil rights attorney, Bryan Stevenson, notes that slavery in the U.S. did not end -- it evolved and continues to shape the American experience in fundamental ways, with the criminal justice system acting as a powerful form of social control over African Americans.
Through our work, we have found that providing the history of slavery -- of Jim Crow, of racial terror lynching, of convict leasing, of the racially motivated use of prisons and excessive sentences in the U.S. – has been essential for many of those incarcerated to know themselves and to know the truth, not only of their lives, but also their parents' and grandparents’ lives. Otherwise, many are left to sit in cells that echo with society’s condemnation and rejection, condemning and rejecting themselves, their families and communities. Many of those in prison struggle to understand themselves and their possibilities while denied access to the very necessary knowledge of history and its legacy, knowledge that could, among other things, allow them to challenge assertions that prisoners are inferior and outside the human family.
Through our work, we have seen how so many people in prison experience an oppressive poverty that includes impoverishment of a historical awareness. Often, we are all unaware that the land our prisons occupy in the rural Southeast is the same landscape many prisoners' ancestors worked in chains or that our death rows face the same vistas where black men and women were lynched by white mobs. It is our hope that through service and education, we might join with others to begin addressing this legacy and work towards ending slavery in all of its forms.
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Runaway Servants
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857 is the most infamous ruling of the 19th century. Dred Scott was a slave who had lived with his owner in two free states before returning to Missouri, a slave state. In trying to win his freedom, he ultimately turned to the courts and argued that his time in the free states made him a free man. But the High Court ruling – which made the Civil War inevitable – ruled that a black person could not be a citizen of the United States, nor could he or she be protected under U.S. laws.
Charles Ball
Charles Ball, a slave from Maryland, was born in about 1780 . His grandfather was brought from Africa and sold as a slave. His mother was the slave of a tobacco planter. When the planter died when Ball was four years old, he family were sold separately. Ball stayed in Maryland but his mother went to Georgia and he never saw her again.
Ball was allowed to marry but in 1805 he was sold to a cotton plantation owner in South Carolina while his wife and children remained in Maryland. Ball made several attempts to escape but was captured and became another man's slave.
After a period in Georgia he escaped again and managed to get back to his previous home in Maryland. Unfortunately, his wife and children had been sold to a slave-owner in another state. He re-married and obtained a small farm until in about 1830 he was seized and returned to slavery in Georgia.
Ball managed to escape again and this time settled in Philadelphia. With the help of Isaac Fisher, a white lawyer, wrote his autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball (1837). Afraid of being recaptured, Ball moved again and its is not known when and where he died.
(1) Charles Ball,
The Life of an American Slave (1859)
My mother had several children, and they were sold upon master's death to separate purchasers. She was sold, my father told me, to a Georgia trader. I, of all her children, was the only one left in Maryland. When sold I was naked, never having had on clothes in my life, but my new master gave me a child's frock, belonging to one of his own children. After he had purchased me, he dressed me in this garment, took me before him on his horse, and started home; but my poor mother, when she saw me leaving her for the last time, ran after me, took me down from the horse, clasped me in her arms, and wept loudly and bitterly over me.
My master seemed to pity her; and endeavored to soothe her distress by telling her that he would be a good master to me, and that I should not want anything. She then, still holding me in her arms, walked along the road beside the horse as he moved slowly, and earnestly and imploringly besought my master to buy her and the rest of her children, and not permit them to be carried away by the negro buyers; but whilst thus entreating him to save her and her family, the slave-driver, who had first bought her, came running in pursuit of her with a raw-hide in his hand. When he overtook us, he told her he was her master now, and ordered her to give that little negro to its owner, and come back with him.
My mother then turned to him and cried, "Oh, master, do not take me from my child!" Without making any reply, he gave her two or three heavy blows on the shoulders with his raw-hide, snatched me from her arms, handed me to my master, and seizing her by one arm, dragged her back towards the place of sale. My master then quickened the pace of his horse; and as we advanced, the cries of my poor parent became more and more indistinct - at length they died away in the distance, and I never again heard the voice of my poor mother.
(2) Charles Ball, The Life of an American Slave (1859)
After the flight of my father, my grandfather was the only person left in Maryland with whom I could claim kindred. He was an old man, nearly eighty years old, he said, and he manifested all the fondness for me that I could expect from one so old. He was feeble, and his master required but little work from him. He always expressed contempt for his fellow-slaves, for when young, he was an African of rank in his native land. He had a small cabin of his own, with half an acre of ground attached to it, which he cultivated on his own account, and from which he drew a large share of his sustenance. He had singular religious notions - never going to meeting or caring for the preachers he could, if he would, occasionally hear. He retained his native traditions respecting the Deity and hereafter. It is not strange that he believed the religion of his oppressors to be the invention of designing men, for the text oftenest quoted in his hearing was, "Servants, be obedient to your masters."
(3) Charles Ball, The Life of an American Slave (1859)
When I was about twelve years old, my master, Jack Cox, died of a disease which had long confined him to the house. I was sorry for the death of my master, who had always been kind to me; and I soon discovered that I had good cause to regret his departure from this world. He had several children at the time of his death, who were all young; the oldest being about my own age. The father of my late master, who was still living, became administrator of his estate, and took possession of his property, and amongst the rest, of myself. This old gentleman treated me with the greatest severity, and compelled me to work very hard on his plantation for several years, until I suppose I must have been near or quite twenty years of age.
As I was always very obedient, and ready to execute all his orders, I did not receive much whipping, but suffered greatly for want of sufficient and proper food. My master allowed his slaves a peck of corn, each, per week, throughout the year; and this we had to grind into meal in a hand-mill for ourselves. We had a tolerable supply of meat for a short time, about the month of December, when he killed his hogs. After that season we had meat once a week, unless bacon became scarce, which very often happened, in which case we had no meat at all. However, as we fortunately lived near both the Patuxent river and the Chesapeake Bay, we had abundance of fish in the spring, and as long as the fishing season continued. After that period, each slave received, in addition to his allowance of corn, one salt herring every day.
(4) Charles Ball, The Life of an American Slave (1859)
I went home with my master, Mr. Gibson, who was a farmer, and with whom I lived three years. Soon after I came to live with Mr. Gibson, I married a girl of color named Judah, the slave of a gentleman by the name of Symmes, who resided in the same neighborhood. I was at the house of Mr. Symmes every week; and became as well acquainted with him and his family, as I was with my master.
Mr. Symmes also married a wife about the time I did. The lady whom he married lived near Philadelphia, and when she first came to Maryland, she refused to be served by a black chambermaid, but employed a white girl, the daughter of a poor man, who lived near. The lady was reported to be very wealthy, and brought a large trunk full of plate and other valuable articles. This trunk was so heavy that I could scarcely carry it, and it impressed my mind with the idea of great riches in the owner, at that time. After some time Mrs. Symmes dismissed her white chambermaid and placed my wife in that situation, which I regarded as a fortunate circumstance, as it insured her good food, and at least one good suit of clothes.
(5) Charles Ball, The Life of an American Slave (1859)
I was now a slave in South Carolina, and had no hope of ever again seeing my wife and children. I had at times serious thoughts of suicide so great was my anguish. If I could have got a rope I should have hanged myself at Lancaster. The thought of my wife and children I had been torn from in Maryland, and the dreadful undefined future which was before me, came near driving me mad. It was long after midnight before I fell asleep, but the most pleasant dream, succeeded to these sorrowful forebodings. I thought I had escaped my master, and through great difficulties made my way back to Maryland, and was again in my wife's cabin with my little children on my lap. Every object was so vividly impressed on my mind in this dream, that when I awoke, a firm conviction settled upon my mind, that by some means, at present incomprehensible to me, I should yet again embrace my wife, and caress my children in their humble dwelling.
Early in the morning, our master called us up and distributed to each of the party a cake made of corn-meal and a small piece of bacon. On our journey, we had only eaten twice a day, and had not received breakfast until about nine o'clock; but he said this morning meal was given to welcome us to South Carolina. He then addressed us all, and told us we might now give up all hope of ever returning to the places of our nativity; as it would be impossible for us to pass through the States of North Carolina and Virginia, without being taken up and sent back. He further advised us to make ourselves contented, as he would take us to Georgia, a far better country than any we had seen; and where we would be able to live in the greatest abundance.
About sunrise we took up our march on the road to Columbia, as we were told. Hitherto our master had not offered to sell any of us, and had even refused to stop to talk to any one on the subject of our sale, although he had several times been addressed on this point, before we reached Lancaster; but soon after we departed from this village, we were overtaken on the road by a man on horseback, who accosted our driver by asking him if his niggars were for sale. The latter replied, that he believed he would not sell any yet, as he was on his way to Georgia, and cotton being now much in demand, he expected to obtain high prices for us from persons who were going to settle in the new purchase. He, however, contrary to his custom, ordered us to stop, and told the stranger he might look at us, and that he would find us as fine a lot of hands as were ever imported into the country - that we were all prime property, and he had no doubt would command his own prices in Georgia.
The stranger, who was a thin, weather-beaten, sunburned figure, then said, he wanted a couple of breeding wenches, and would give as much for them as they would bring in Georgia. He then walked along our line, as we stood chained together, and looked at the whole of us - then turning to the women; asked the prices of the two pregnant ones. Our master replied, that these were two of the best breeding-wenches in all Maryland - that one was twenty-two, and the other only nineteen - that the first was already the mother of seven children, and the other of four - that he had himself seen the children at the time he bought their mothers - and that such wenches would be cheap at a thousand dollars each; but as they were not able to keep up with the gang, he would take twelve hundred dollars for the two.
(6) Charles Ball eventually decided to escape and try and return to his family in Maryland.
I received this admonition as a warning of the dangers that I must encounter in my journey to the North. After adjusting my clothes, I again took to the woods, and bore a little to the east of north; it now being my determination to turn down the country, so as to gain the line of the roads by which I had come to the South. I traveled all day in the woods; but a short time before sundown, came within view of an opening in the forest, which I took to be cleared fields, but upon a closer examination, finding no fences or other enclosures around it, I advanced into it and found it to be an open savanna, with a small stream of water creeping slowly through it. At the lower side of the open space were the remains of an old beaver dam, the central part of which had been broken away by the current of the stream at the time of some flood.
As it was growing late, and I believed I must now be near the settlements, I determined to encamp for the night, beside this old beaver dam. I again took my supper from my bag of meal, and made my bed for the night amongst the canes that grew in the place. This night I slept but little; for it seemed as if all the owls in the country had assembled in my neighborhood to perform a grand musical concert. Their hooting and chattering commenced soon after dark, and continued until the dawn of day.
(7) After several failed escaped attempts, Charles Ball eventually reached his former home in Maryland.
This intelligence almost deprived me of life; it was the most dreadful of all the misfortunes that I had ever suffered. It was now clear that some slave-dealer had come in my absence and seized my wife and children as slaves, and sold them to such men as I had served in the South. They had now passed into hopeless bondage, and were gone forever beyond my reach. I myself was advertised as a fugitive slave, and was liable to be arrested at each moment, and dragged back to Georgia. I rushed out of my own house in despair and returned to Pennsylvania with a broken heart.
For the last few years, I have resided about fifty miles from Philadelphia, where I expect to pass the evening of my life, in working hard for my subsistence, without the least hope of ever again seeing, my wife and children: - fearful, at this day, to let my place of residence be known, lest even yet it may be supposed, that as an article of property, I am of sufficient value to be worth pursuing in my old age.
Servants who ran away
September 22, 1763
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Oxford Township,
Chester County, an Irish Servant, named Thomas Cane, late from
Ireland; the Fellow can read and write, about 5 Feet high, of
a fair Complexion, short fair Hair, and speaks with a Tone:
Had on, when he went away, a Thickset Coat and Jacket, of a
dark Colour, the Coat has remarkable long Skirts, Calf skin
Breeches, much dirtied, Worsted Stockings, brown and white; he
had also a Pair of short Petticoat Trowsers, with a Seam round
each Thigh, half worn Shoes, large Copper Buckles, a Felt Hat,
half worn. Said Fellow came in a Dublin Vessel last May. All
Masters of Vessels are forbid to carry him off. Whoever takes
up and secures said Servant, so as his Master may have him
again, shall have Five Pounds Reward, paid by DAVID KENNEDY,
jun.
January 12, 1769
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Philadelphia, January 5, 1769.
TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. RUN away on Tuesday morning, the 3d instant, from the subscriber, at the sign of the Blue Ball, in Chestnut street, Philadelphia, an Irish servant woman, named Mary
Conner, about 23 or 24 years of age, fresh complexion, a little marked with the small pox, with brown hair, and very clumsely built: Had on, when she went away, a green camblet gown, a yellow
stuff petticoat, white apron, leather shoes, and blue yarn stockings. Has one of the fingers of her right hand remarkably sore. She took with her a pompadour stuff gown, a coarse straw hat, a
blue quilted petticoat, an old red cloak, a pair of coarse white thread stockings, with other wearing apparel unknown, and many probably change her dress, as she has said she would dress herself
in mens clothes. She is very artful, speaks bad English, and was imported in the sloop Halifax, Captain Smith, from Dingle, in Ireland. Whoever takes up and secures said servant in any of his
Majestygoals, so as her master may have her again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
October 12, 1769
The Pennsylvania Gazette
New Castle County, October 3, 1769.
WAS committed to the goal of this county, upon suspicion of being runaway servants, to wit. JOHN MONEY, born in Ireland, about 5 feet 6 inches high, black hair, pale complexion, by trade a
weaver; had on, when committed, a light coloured homespun cloth coat, linsey waistcoat, and coarse tow trowsers. ELIZABETH MOORE, a native Irish woman, about 30 years of age, fair complexion,
brown hair; had on, when committed, a stampt cotton gown, of a purple colour, a linsey petticoat, shoes, and stockings. Their masters (if any they have) are desired to come, pay their cost, and
take them away, in 6 weeks from this date, or they will be sold for the same by THOMAS PUSEY, Goaler.
August 29, 1771
The Pennsylvania Gazette
FIVE POUNDS Reward.
RUN away from the subscribers, living in Carnarvon township, Lancaster county, two Irish servant men, one named James Sheehy, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, dark complexion, short black curled
hair; had on, and took with him, a brown saggathy coat, with mohair buttons, striped silk lappelled waistcoat, light coloured knit breeches, white cotton stockings, 2 pair of pumps, and 1 pair of
shoes, with square silver buckles, 2 fine shirts, 1 coarse ditto, a beaver hat, and white trowsers. The other, named John Glashien, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, thick made, and pockmarked;
had on a blue coat, white linen waistcoat, leather breeches, grey ribbed stockings, white linen waistcoat, leather breeches, a coarse home made linen shirt: Both native Irishmen, and speak with
the brogue; they lately came from Waterford, in Ireland, with Captain Curtis. Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them in any goal within this province, or brings them to the subscribers,
shall receive Three Pounds for Sheehy, and Forty Shillings for the other, with reasonable charges.
June 7, 1770
The Pennsylvania Gazette
FORTY SHILLINGS Reward.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Juniata, in Cumberland county, an Irish servant man, named John Stokes, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, of a brown complexion, about 20 years of age; had on,
when he went away, an old brown coat, wanting sleeves, a brown sleeveless vest, 2 coarse shirts, old coarse trowsers, old leather breeches, and an old fur hat; he took with him a coarse sheet, of
which it is supposed he will make a hunting shirt; his clothing is meally, having attended a mill since last fall; he wear his own hair tied, which is of a dark brown colour; he has been in this
country about 20 months; he professes being a tolerable scholar, and may endeavour to pass for a schoolmaster; he was bred in the West of Ireland, which is easily discovered by his dialect; it is
supposed he will endeavour to return to Ireland, therefore, it is requested that all masters of vessels would refuse him a passage. He went of the 13th of May. Whoever secures said servant in any
goal, so as his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, paid by me
January 25, 1759
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away on Sunday, the 21st Instant, from the Subscriber, in
Passyunk Township, on a Plantation of Mr. Joseph Sim, an
Irish Servant Girl, named Martha Steward, about 18 years of
Age, has a full Face, low Forehead, a double Chin, and black
Hair; Had on when she went away, an old black Bonnet, a dark
brown short Cloak, a yellow Linsey Gown, half worn, a blue
quilted Petticoat, an under blue and white striped Linsey
Ditto, old clumsy Shoes, with black Tape Strings, with several
Holes tore in the Straps by tying the Strings. She came from
Antrim, in the North of Ireland, and talks much in the Scotch
Manner. Whoever secures said Girl, so as her Master may have
again, shall receive, if taken in this County, Twenty
Shillings, or in any other County, Forty Shillings this
Currency, and reasonable Charges, from JEFFERY HODNETT.
Jan. 23. 1759
June 21, 1759
The Pennsylvania Gazette
May 22, 1766
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away from the Subscriber, living near New Castle, on Sunday Night last, the 18th of this instant May, an Irish Servant Man, named Henry Cowan, about 24 Years of Age, dark Complexion, about 5
Feet 6 Inches high, pretty fat; had on when he went away, a light blue Serge Coat, Nankeen Jacket and Breeches, white Linen Shirt, white Thread Stockings, new Pumps, and wears his own black Hair;
came from Ireland last Fall, in the Ship Marquis of Granby, Captain Macilvaine, and as he is a tolerable Good Scholar, may forge a Pass, perhaps; from under the Captain Hand. Whoever takes up and
secures said Servant, so that his Master may have him again, shall have Five Pounds Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid by MATTHEW CANNON.
June 4, 1767
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Lancaster, May 27, 1767.
WAS committed to my custody, the 21st of last April, on suspicion of being runaway servants, Richard Merryman, a low set fellow, about 5 feet 4 inches high, red hair, much freckled, and speaks
much with the Irish accent; says he served his time in George Town, on Potowmack, Maryland, with one James Divin, and has the counter part of his indenture with him. And Thomas McVenny, about 5
feet 6 inches high, well built, dark brown hair, of a dark complexion, and says he came in here from Ireland last fall with Captain Davis, and that he paid him for his passage, but can produce no
receipt for the same. Their masters, if any they have, are desired, in four weeks after the date hereof, to come, pay their charges, and take them away, or they will be sold out for their fees by
MATTHIAS BUGH, Goaler.
February 28, 1765
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away from John Pierse, on Sunday the 24th Instant, about
Three o'Clock in the Morning, an Irish Servant Lad, named
Archibald Kelly, between 16 and 17 Years of Age, about 5 Feet
6 Inches high, of a fair complexion, long Visage, down Look,
has dark brown hair, but it is likely he may have it cut off;
had on, when he went away, a blue Surtout Coat, with gilt
Buttons, a blue Cloth Coat, with Brass Buttons, a scarlet
Cloth Jacket, without Sleeves, both Coat and Jacket have been
turned, blue Cloth Breeches, with washed Buttons, Worsted
Stockings, Check Linen Shirt, and Pinchbeck Shoe Buckles. He
is very much given to lying, and will persist in a Lie a long
Time. It is supposed he intended going off in one of the first
Vessels to Ireland, or else is gone in the Stage to New York.
Whoever takes up said Servant, and brings him to his Master,
shall have Forty Shillings Reward, and reasonable Charges,
paid by JOHN PIERSE.
September 3, 1767
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Uwchland township, Chester county, August 28,, 1767.
RUN away last night, from the subscriber, a native Irish servant man, named Patrick Brown, lately arrived from Ireland in the snow Sarah, Captain Taylor, by trade a gardiner, is of a fair
complexion, looks sickly, having had the ague for some time past, is a thick well set fellow, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, wears his hair tied behind: Had on an old fine linen shirt, blue
jacket, without sleeves, a frize jacket, of a grey colour, striped ticken breeches, yarn stockings, good shoes, with brass buckles, and a half worn hat. Whoever takes up and secures said servant,
so as his master may have him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
DENNIS WHELEN.
April 24, 1766
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Lancaster, April 15, 1766.
WAS committed to my Custody, on the 11th of this Inst. on Suspicion of a Runaway Servant, a Girl, who calls herself Isabel Beard, she was born in Ireland, and came in the Snow Pitt above two
Years ago; she is about 4 Feet 8 Inches high, very thickset; had on, when committed, a blue Stuff Gown, striped Linsey Petticoat and Bed Gown, old Shoes and Stockings; she says she belongs to a
certain William Grimes, a Jobber, and late of York County, where she says she left him. Her Master therefore, if any she has, is hereby desired to come, pay her Charges, and take her away,
otherwise she will be sold for her Fees, by MATTHIAS BOOGH, Goaler.
December 6, 1759
The Pennsylvania Gazette
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
Run away, on the 30th of November last, from the Subscriber,
living in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, an Irish
Servant Man, named Richard Ryan, about 5 Feet 10 Inches high,
fair Complexion, with red Hair, has a short Step when he
walks, and lifts his Feet quick. Took Abundance of good
Cloathing with him, viz. a blue Broadcloth Coat, with a small
Velvet Collar, a Lead coloured Stuff Coat, Jacket and
Breeches, a green Velvet Jacket, lined with red, two Hats, one
coarse, the other fine, three Pair of Breeches, one pair of
them new Buckskin, another Pair of light coloured Cloth, with
small Metal Buttons at the Knees, several Pair of large
Petticoat Trowsers, two Pair of Shoes, one of them new. He has
an old Indenture with him, which supposed he will pass
by. He is very talkative, and apt to mention the Part of
Ireland he came from, viz. the Town of Clomell, in the County
of Tipperary. Whoever takes up and secures said Servant, so as
his Master may have him again, shall have Three Pounds reward,
paid by WILLIAM VOGAN.
May 13, 1762
The Pennsylvania Gazette
TWO PISTOLES Reward.
Newtown, on Chester River, Kent County, Maryland. May 3, 1762.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber, living in Kent County, Maryland,
A Servant Man, named Thomas Connor, a Shoemaker by Trade, and
is an Irishman, born in the West of Ireland, is about 50 Years
of Age, has a large cut in his right Cheek, which he says he
got when he was a Soldier in the Regulars last War; he has
been in Germany, and talks much of it, and his been in the
Provincial Service this War, and has forged Beating orders
with him; he is very remarkable by the Shaking of his Head,
which he cannot help, and says it was occasioned by a Ball:
Had on, and took with him, when he went away, A brown
Broadcloth Coat, with Whitemetal Buttons, white Flannel
Jacket, black Everlasting Breeches, with Plaid Garters tying
them at the Knees, white ribbed Stockings, good Shoes, with
Steel Buckles, wears his own Hair, which is grey. He likewise
took some Cash from me and some other of the Neighbours.
Whoever takes up and secures said Servant in any Goal between
this Place and New York or Old York, or any Part of Virginia,
and sends Word to me the Subscriber, so as I may get him
again, shall receive Two Pistoles Reward; and if brought Home
reasonable Charges, paid by me ALEXANDER McINTOSH.
July 21, 1768
The Pennsylvania Gazette
TEN POUNDS Reward.
BROKE out of the workhouse, in the borough and county of Chester, on the 14th of the Sixth Month, the two following servants, viz. HENRY SMITH, an Englishman, about 23 years of age, of a fair
complexion, grey eyes, light straight yellowish hair, a little marked with the small pox, a scar on his cheek, like a large pock mark, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, a carpenter or wheelwright
by trade, but his employ in this country has been attending a saw mill; stole since he went away, a light coloured camblet jacket, lined with cinnamon coloured tammy, a red twilled flannel
waistcoat, a new beaver hat, with two stains on the brim, near the crown, of a redish colour, a pair of English ticking trowsers, two pair ditto striped linen, several fine shirts, one check
ditto, a black neckcloth, several pair of thread stockings, and a new pair of neats leather shoes. The other, a healthy, hearty looking servant maid, named MARY KENNEDY, came from Ireland, and
hath pretty much of the brogue in her talk, broad face, somewhat pock fretten, black complexion, and black hair; had on, and stole since she went away, a linsey striped gown, a short check ditto,
a check apron, a red and blue striped petticoat, one ditto of walnut coloured tammy, one riding ditto of walnut colour and black tammy, a black cloth cloak, with a velvet collar, no cape, one
Irish linen shift, one ditto of Irish sheeting, cambrick caps, with lawn borders, a plain lawn Handkerchief, one ditto of silk, a white peeling hat, puckered over, with a white silk ribbon about
the crown, a pair of calfskin pumps, one ditto of neats leather; much more clothes they have stolen. She is in company with the above servant, and it is thought they will pass for man and wife;
they have been lurking about Thomas Waters for some weeks, in order to furnish themselves with clothes, and will now be for making off; they lie by in the day, and travel slowly in the night,
breaking open spring houses and smoke houses as they go. Whoever takes up and secures said servants in goal, so that their masters may have them again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS for the woman,
and FIVE POUNDS, reward, and reasonable charges, for the man, if taken up within 25 miles of Chester, or the above reward for both, if further off, paid by WILLIAM PETERS, and THOMAS WATERS.
December 2, 1762
The Pennsylvania Gazette
THREE POUNDS Reward.
Run away from the Subscriber, living in Exeter Township, Berks
County, on or about the 22d Day of October last, An indented
Servant Man, named Daniel Haley, born in Ireland, and retains
the Irish Accent, about 5 feet 7 Inches high, 18 Years of Age,
of a fair Complexion, has thick Lips, with short black Hair:
Had on when he went away, A coarse grey Jacket, half worn
black Plush Breeches, new knit Stockings, old Shoes, with
Brass Buckles, and an old Hat. Whoever takes up and secures
said Servant, so as his Master may have him again, shall have
the above Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid by WILLIAM
MAUGRIDGE.
August 18, 1768
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away from the subscribers, living in Hanover township, Lancaster county, on Sunday, the 7th of August inst. an Irish servant man, named PETER CONOWAY, of a middle stature, speaks with the
brogue, is about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, has a down look, his hair is of a darkish pale colour, cut short off, except a little behind, as he is lately come from the ship; had on, when he went
away, a wool hat, about half worn, striped shirt, old white trowsers, a spotted flannel jacket, an old pair of shoes, and midling large brass buckles.
Also, went in company with the above, another servant man, a native of Ireland, named THOMAS DOIL, speaks more with the brogue than the other, about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, his hair also cut,
but black, and somewhat curly; had on, an old wool hat, striped shirt, old white trowsers, an old light blue jacket, much worn, the upper part of the back parts another kind of cloth, and dark
blue, and a new pair of calfskin shoes with straps, but were tied with thongs.
Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them in any of his Majestygoals, so that their masters may have them again, shall have Forty Shillings for each, if taken separate; if taken together,
Three Pounds for both, and reasonable charges, paid by us DANIEL SHAW, SAMUEL ALLEN.
July 7, 1763
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Lancaster, on the 26th
of June, a Native Irish Servant Woman, named Katey Norton, who
came from the County of Wicklow, in Ireland, last Fall, she is
about 25 or 26 Years of Age, of a dark Complexion, has black
Hair, talks in the Irish Dialect, rocks in her Walk, and is
pretty sharp in talking: Had on, and took with her, a black
and white Calicoe Bed gown, a black calimancoe Skirt, an old
Skirt, a striped Lincey Petticoat, red, blue and white, and an
homespun Cotton tight bodied Wrapper, with fine blue and white
small Stripes. She has likewise stolen a fine Cotton chintz
Gown, of a genteel Figure, with red, green, blue and yellow
Flowers; a white Gown, two fine Shirts, with Ribbons at the
Sleeves, one white Apron, two Check Ditto, one Silk Gauze Cap,
with broad Lace, which she wears far back on her Head; and has
a black Peeling Bonnet, with Pasteboard and Gimp round it, two
black Handkerchiefs, one Linnen Ditto, white homespun Thread
Stockings, new Shoes, with Brass square Buckles set with
Stones. She talks of Friends she has at Chester, New York and
Baltimore; she is a cunning Hussey, and no Doubt will pass a
While for an honest Woman, as she has good Cloaths with her,
and can behave herself. Whoever takes up said Woman, and
brings her to the Subscriber, in Lancaster, shall have Three
Pounds Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid by me ROBERT
FULTON.
September 22, 1763
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Oxford Township,
Chester County, an Irish Servant, named Thomas Cane, late from
Ireland; the Fellow can read and write, about 5 Feet high, of
a fair Complexion, short fair Hair, and speaks with a Tone:
Had on, when he went away, a Thickset Coat and Jacket, of a
dark Colour, the Coat has remarkable long Skirts, Calf skin
Breeches, much dirtied, Worsted Stockings, brown and white; he
had also a Pair of short Petticoat Trowsers, with a Seam round
each Thigh, half worn Shoes, large Copper Buckles, a Felt Hat,
half worn. Said Fellow came in a Dublin Vessel last May. All
Masters of Vessels are forbid to carry him off. Whoever takes
up and secures said Servant, so as his Master may have him
again, shall have Five Pounds Reward, paid by DAVID KENNEDY,
jun.
May 24, 1764
The Pennsylvania Gazette
MADE his Escape from on board Richard Townshend Shallop, in
the Night between the 16th and 17th instant May, an Irish
Servant Man, named Christopher Burns, about 18 Years of Age,
about 5 Feet 5 Inches high, of a pretty fair Complexion,
smooth Face, and speaks pretty good English: Had on an old
Cloth coloured Coat, Check Shirt, Leather Breeches, half worn
Shoes and Stockings, and an old Hat. He is just arrived from
Ireland, being purchased from on board the last Vessel from
thence. Whoever takes up and secures him, so that his Master
may have him again, shall have Thirty Shillings Reward, and
reasonable Charges, paid by AARON LEAMING, at Cape May, or by
ROBERT BOYD, Hatter, in Front street, Philadelphia.
August 16, 1764
The Pennsylvania Gazette
RUN away the 10th of this instant August, from the Subscriber,
in Upper Makefield, Bucks County, an Irish Servant Man, named
Connor Gleson, about 5 Feet 5 or 6 Inches high, of fair
Complexion, and has short curled Hair: Had on, when he went
away, a new Felt Hat, Linen Shirt, Tow Trowsers, half worn
Shoes, with Brass Buckles, and drab coloured Broadcloth
Jacket, with Cuffs; he is very talkative, speaks much with the
Brogue, and pretends to know great Part of Ireland. Whoever
takes up and secures said Servant, so that his Master may have
him again, shall have Forty Shillings Reward, and reasonable
Charges, paid by me
JAMES McNAIR.
Escaped Slave wrote letter to friend, his wife and two children back home in Jail.
LETTER FROM SHERIDAN FORD, IN DISTRESS.
BOSTON, MASS., Feb. 15th, 1855.
No. 2, Change Avenue.
MY DEAR FRIEND:—Allow me to take the liberty of addressing you and at the same time appearing troublesomes you all friend, but subject is so very important that i can not but ask not in my name but in the name of the Lord and humanity to do something for my Poor Wife and children who lays in Norfolk Jail and have Been there for three month i Would open myself in that frank and hones manner. Which should convince you of my cencerity of Purpoest don’t shut your ears to the cry’s of the Widow and the orphant & i can but ask in the name of humanity and God for he knows the heart of all men. Please ask the friends humanity to do something for her and her two lettle ones i cant do any thing Place as i am for i have to lay low Please lay this before the churches of Philadelphaise beg them in name of the Lord to do something for him i love my freedom and if it would do her and her two children any good i mean to change with her but cant be done for she is Jail and you most no she suffer for the jail in the South are not like yours for any thing is good enough for negros the Slave hunters Says & may God interpose in behalf of the demonstrative Race of Africa Whom i claim desendent i am sorry to say that friendship is only a name here but i truss it is not so in Philada i would not have taken this liberty had i not considered you a friend for you treaty as such Please do all you can and Please ask the Anti Slavery friends to do all they can and God will Reward them for it i am shure for the earth is the Lords and the fullness there of as this note leaves me not very well but hope when it comes to hand it may find you and family enjoying all the Pleasure life Please answer this and Pardon me if the necessary sum can be required i will find out from my brotherinlaw i am with respectful consideration.
SHERIDAN W. FORD.
Yesterday is the fust time i have heard from home Sence i left and i have not got any thing yet i have a tear yet for my fellow man and it is in my eyes now for God knows it is tha truth i sue for your Pity and all and may God open their hearts to Pity a poor Woman and two children. The Sum is i believe 14 hundred Dollars Please write to day for me and see if the cant do something for humanity.