Anderson, John, stole goods and money, 16 Apr. 1761
Gossitt, Mary, stole clothes [1], 16 Apr. 1761
Park, James, 23 Apr. 1761
Macgilly, Thomas, 28 May 1761
Macgilly, Mrs. [wife of slave Thomas], 28 May 1761
Burrows, John, 11 June 1761
Dixon, Mary, 2 July 1761
Williams, William, 16 July 1761
Williams, Thomas, 16 July 1761
Earley, Margaret MG, 30 July 1761
Mace, John, 11 Mar. 1762
Mobs, Philip, stole a horse, 15 Apr. 1762
Scott, Jacob, 22 Apr. 1762
Taubert, William Augustus, stole money and a horse, 8 July 1762
Milborn, John from Occaquan Iron Works, [2] Virginia, 16 Sept. 1762
Edwards, Tise, 16 Sept. 1762
Jones, James, about 17 years old, 16 Sept. 1762
Brookes, William, 21 Oct. 1762
Payne, John als. Cowley als. Monday als. Weaver, 21 Oct. 1762
Wickonton, David, a hired man, [3] 4 Nov. 1762
Murdo, William, apprentice, [4], stole a horse, 4 Nov. 1762
Downy, Samuel, 9 Dec. 1762
Wickenden, David, 6 Jan. 1763
Henry, Jonathon, 20 Jan. 1763
Kellock, Mary, 3 Feb. 1763
Clark, Richard, apprentice [4], 10 Mar. 1763
Collins, John als. Thomas Lockier, owned by Josias Slade of Baltimore, 26 May 1763
Daley, John, 2 June 1763
Wickenden, David, owned by Alexander Wells of Baltimore, wears an iron collar, [5] 16 June 1763
Notes
1. Escaped white, female slaves habitually took two to three changes of clothes with them, all such clothes belonging to the master, for slaves did not own the clothes they wore and were often barefoot. To runaway shooed and clothed was to be a thief as well.
2. These iron works, a hellish place to be enslaved, were founded and operated by a Quaker, Quakers and other such "peaceful" congregationalists being the largest owners of white slaves in 18th century English America.
3. If a hired man ran away, he was still in breech of contract and then might be recaptured and sold to pay off the remainder of his contract, service owed rendered into a sale price.
4. An apprentice was treated no different than a transport, a convict, a redemptioner, an indenture, or a negro and had no rights other than to have his beatings limited to 30 lashes.
5. People fitted with iron collars were generally so treated for being chronic runaways.
So Her Master May Have Her Again
A History of Runaway White Slaves in Plantation America: Part Two
