Citation - Independent Gazeteer: 1783.06.28

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Index Entry Dancer, runaway Negro named Phil, also plays fiddle 
Location Monckton Park 
Citation
IG.783.086
28 Jun 1783:43 (87)
Monckton Park, Bucks County, State of Pennsylvania, two
miles below Bristol, on the River, May 27.
Thirty dollars reward.  Ran away from the above plantation,
on the 5th day of November last, a Negro lad, named Phil,
about twenty years old; . . . he is slim made, middle sized,
fond of strong drink, bad women, fiddling and dancing, bow
shinned, very antic, and complaisant to his own colour,
saying madam and sir.
. . . [12 lines on reward terms.]
[signed] Robert Monckton Malcolm.


Generic Title Independent Gazeteer 
Date 1783.06.28 
Publisher Oswald, E., and D. Humphreys 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1783 
Bibliography B0018067
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