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PG-P.758.022
15 Jun 1758:41 (1538)
Run away on the first of May last, from the subscriber,
living on Corsica Creek, in Queen Ann's county, Maryland,
two convict servants, viz. one named John Jackson, about
five feet eight inches high, pitted with the small pox,
middling well set: Had on and took with him, a blue coat,
brown jacket, and lightish coloured breeches, . . . [6
lines], a dark wig, hat, and Scotch bonnet; he is a very
bold fellow, and much given to swearing and lying, plays on
the bagpipes, and has a sett with him; I hear he passes for
a broken pedlar, has pins, needles and ribbons to sell, says
he is an Irishman, and calls himself William O Daniel. The
other named Mary Jackson, wife of the said John, is a lusty
woman, near as high as her husband; she is of a brown
complexion, full face and does not want for impudence. They
both discourse like Scotch people, and I understand she has
changed her dress since she left me to a blue gown and
cloak; they have many things with them not here mentioned;
she is a great singer, and they both love strong liquors.
They both are so impudent that I make no doubt, was I to
meet them in a strange place, they would deny that they ever
were servants to me, or any one else, or that they had ever
seen me before. . . [terms, three pounds reward for both, or
thirty shillings for either, signed] William Clayton.
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