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Volume Three of deserter ads is the final volume in this series. It is based on an examination of thirty-eight newspapers published from Massachusetts to South Carolina between 1775 and 1783. Included in this volume's list of newspapers for the first time are issues of the Virginia Gazette. As Virginia allowed officials from South Carolina and Georgia to recruit in Virginia, readers will discover many deserters from units for those two states ...

Mr. Boyle examined newspapers, from New England to Maryland, including The Vermont Journal, The Boston Evening Post, The Boston Gazette, The Connecticut Courant, The Connecticut Journal, The Essex Gazette, The Massachusetts Spy, The New Hampshire Gazette, The Newport Mercury, Pennsylvania Ledger, The New York Journal, The Norwich Packet, and The Maryland Gazette. Each ad gives a number of details about the runaway and his/her master, including...

Mr. Boyle examined newspapers, from New England to Maryland, including The Vermont Journal, The Boston Evening Post, The Boston Gazette, The Connecticut Courant, The Connecticut Journal, The Essex Gazette, The Massachusetts Spy, The New Hampshire Gazette, The Newport Mercury, Pennsylvania Ledger, The New York Journal, The Norwich Packet, and The Maryland Gazette. Each ad gives a number of details about the runaway and his/her master, including...

This is the second of a projected series of four volumes of New England runaways, as advertised in colonial newspapers of the time, 1755-1768, from New England to Maryland: including the Boston Evening-Post, The Boston Gazette, The Connecticut Gazette, The New England Courant, The American Weekly Mercury, The Rhode Island Gazette, and The New York Evening Post. Each ad give a number of details about the runaway and his/her master, including na...

This work is the third volume of colonial New England runaways, as identified in contemporary newspaper ads. The majority of individuals are runaway servants and slaves, but a number are runaway apprentices, both men and women, military deserters, and criminals. This compilation lists all individuals mentioned in the ads. If an individual is listed with more than one name, all the names appear in the index. While many of the African Americans ...

Among the many forgotten heroes of the American Revolution are the commissaries - the hundreds of men who worked to supply the fighting men with arms, clothing and food. The commissaries were an absolutely vital link in winning the war. Consider the difficulties in supplying an army of more than 17, 000 men in an era when transportation and communication could only be conducted by horseback or wagon, and there was great food spoilage due to pr...

This book honors the Virginia contingents of the American infantry that served at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, over the winter of 1777-78. The core of the book, the first of a multi-volume work, consists of an alphabetical list of ten of the Virginia infantry regiments at the Valley Forge encampment. Joseph Lee Boyle has abstracted the lists from Revolutionary War muster and payrolls. Each patriot is identified by name, rank, date, and term of ...

Among the many forgotten heroes of the American Revolution are the commissaries¿the hundreds of men who worked to supply the fighting men with arms, clothing and food. Consider the difficulties in supplying an army of more than 17, 000 men in an era when transportation and communication could only be conducted by horseback or wagon, and preservative techniques were completely unknown. One of the most persevering commissaries in feeding the Con...

Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available. The intent of this effort is to present a selection of these, in the eighth of such volumes, to allow greate...

Runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. From the genealogist's standpoint, this presents a methodological problem, since it was in the runaway's best interest to conceal his/her identity after making a successful getaway. Even if the runaway kept the same name, it is quite likely that the link to his original residence in America and to his country of origin was lost--unless his/her identity was uncovered in the t...

This book honors the Delaware and New York contingents of the American infantry that served at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Mr. Boyle's informative introduction traces the service of the regiments before and after they joined General Washington in November 1777. The core of the book consists of an alphabetical list in excess of 2, 000 Delaware and New York soldiers abstracted from Revolutionary War muster and payrolls. Each patriot is identifie...

Transcription of ads for runaway servants taken from 24 colonial newspapers from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, and New York. The ads provide information on more than 2, 500 persons, giving name, age, sex, height, place of origin, occupation, speech, physical imperfections, clothing, and more.

Printed for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company"--T.p. verso.

While the six-month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1777-1778 has been part of America's folklore for generations, " author Joseph Boyle writes in his Introduction, "most of the men who served there have remained anonymous. The names of over 30, 000 men of all ranks appear on the surviving monthly muster and payroll records. This compilation is the initial effort to recognize some of these heroes of the Revolutionary War.

Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never

The roughly 750 runaway notices in "When Drunk Is Very Bold" name upwards of 2, 500 people in all. The transcriber has gathered this otherwise inaccessible data by combing through twenty colonial newspapers, including the Maryland Gazette. While the overwhelming majority of the runaways named were from Maryland, the author includes out-of-state fugitives when the papers refer to them. Besides the carefully transcribed ads themselves, researche...

Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available. The intent of this effort is to present a selection of these, in the seventh of such volumes, to allow great...

Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never

As Mr. Boyle points out in his very helpful introduction, Pennsylvania received one-tenth of all male indentured servants from the 1720s through the 1740s, and about one-fifth of the women in that period. According to one authority, over 67, 000 German immigrants arrived at the busy port of Philadelphia from 1720 through 1760, at least half of whom were servants. Mr. Boyle's transcription of the runaway ads, taken from seventeen different colo...

Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never