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VGW(HU.752.055
10 Jul 1752:41 (80)
May 4th, 1752. Ran away from the subscriber in Lancaster
County, a convict servant woman, named Sarah Knox, of middle
size, a swarthy complexion and has a short nose, talks
broad, and says she was born in Yorkshire, had been in the
Army for several years with the camp in Flanders, and at the
Battle of Culoden, where she lost her husband; she had on
when she went away, . . . [4 lines clothing] She may go by
the name of Sarah Howard, Wilson, or something else, pretend
to be a dancing mistress, will make a great many courtesies,
is a very deceitful insinuating woman, and a great lyar.
Whoever apprehends and conveys her to me shall have a
pistole reward besides what the law allows, or if any person
find her qualified to teach dancing, or to serve in any
other way he may purchase between 5 and 6 years service of
her at fifteen pounds currency, from [signed] David Currie.
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