Daniel Gerard, junior.
—Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2146, February 8, 1770.
Burlington, December 3, 1770.
This Day was committed to the Goal of this City, a certain Thomas Gearn, upon suspicion of being a runaway Servant; he says that he belongs to William Withers, living in Cecil County, Maryland, and that he left his said Master about 14 or 15 Weeks ago. Said Servant is about 20 Years of Age, and says when he left his Master he had an Iron Collar on his Neck, but soon got it off. Whoever owns the said Thomas Gearn, is desired to come or send; pay Charges immediately, and take him away.
—Ephraim Phillips, Goaler.
Gloucester County Goal, September 12, 1771.
Taken up on suspicion, as a runaway servant and now confined here, a young man about 5 feet 6 inches high, marked with the small-pox, has on a blue coat, homespun shirt, and check trousers, says his name is Hugh M'Cage, and that he belongs to one William or John Miller, living near Lancaster. His master, if any he has, is desired to fetch him away, and pay charges; otherwise he will be sold out in 3 weeks from the date hereof.
Richard Johnson, Goaler.
—Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept. 12, 1771.
[These advertisements all relate to White men. Like entries continue through the early Revolutionary days, often in the same column with flaming expressions of the spirit of political liberty, in a manner somewhat amazing to a modern reader. This one volume of newspaper extracts for the years 1770-1771, has seventy-seven such advertisements of run-away White servants for New Jersey alone,—many times as many as there were for runaway Negroes.]