New-England Runaways
New-England Runaways by Joseph Lee Boyle, published by Clearfield on February 15, 2022, is a comprehensive examination of runaway servants, slaves, and apprentices in colonial New England. This 332-page work delves into the lives of individuals who escaped servitude, as well as those involved in military desertion, theft, and other crimes. The book compiles advertisements from 28 newspapers spanning from New England to Maryland, providing a rich historical context for understanding the social dynamics of the time.
Readers will find detailed accounts of approximately 1,200 advertisements, which include names, aliases, physical descriptions, and personal characteristics of the runaways, alongside information about their masters. The ads reflect the skilled trades prevalent in New England, such as butchers, bakers, and carpenters, highlighting the region’s settled society. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in family history, genealogy, and the historical landscape of the United States, particularly in relation to family and relationships in New England.
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The majority of the persons in this compilation are runaway servants and slaves, but a number are runaway apprentices, both men and women, military deserts, horse thieves, counterfeiters, and murderers. This work also contains ads for runaways who did not originate in New England, but who had connections there. A number of the runaways were skilled, including butchers, bakers, coopers, carpenters, joiners, farriers, shoemakers, and tailors, reflecting new England’s more settled society.
In compiling this work, Mr. Boyle examined 28 newspapers from New England to Maryland, including The Boston News-letter, The Boston Post-Boy, The Boston Gazette, The Connecticut Courant, The Connecticut Gazette, The Massachusetts Spy, The New Hampshire Gazette, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The New York Gazette, and The Maryland Gazette.
Each ad gives a number of details about the runaway and his/her master, including name and aliases of the runaway, physical description, personality quirks if any, location in New England (including the future states of Vermont and Maine), and where to contact the advertiser. In all, this book contains about 1,200 ads and names over 2,000 persons with connections to colonial New England.
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