maybe by you? From the University of Virginia website on runaway slaves.
Virginia Gazette
(Purdie & Dixon), Williamsburg,
April 5, 1770.Thirteen Pounds Reward. RUN away, on Saturday the 10th instant, from the subscribers, living in Baltimore town, Maryland, the following servants, viz. JOHN CHAMBERS, an English convict servant man, about 21 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, of a pale complexion, gray eyes, and bandy legs; had on and took with him sundry suits of clothes, nine ruffled shirts, a brown bush wig, a pair of single channel boots, a blue cloth great coat, and 150 l. cash, which he robbed his masters house of on the night of his elopement. MARGARET GRANT, a mulatto, about 20 years of age, 5 feet 1 or 2 inches high; had on and took with her sundry womens apparel, but has since disguised herself in a suit of mens blue cloth clothes, attending as waiting boy on the above John Chambers. She is an artful hussy, can read and write, has been in Barbados, Antigua, the Grenades, Philadelphia, and says she was born in Carolina. Whoever apprehends the said servants, and secures them and the money, so that their masters may have them again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, if brought home, paid by
HENRY JAMES.
MORDECAI GIST. March 14, 1770.
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In modern day, wouldn’t this be the set up for a He said She said trial transcript.
I would LOVE to write a historical fiction book, but life seems to get in the way all the time. I am in awe of writers who can compartmentalize and have the drive and desire to not only write a book but stay with it and see it finished. I have one child, granted he is 2, but just writing papers for my classes becomes an exercise in patience!