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MG-A(G.753.002
25 Jan 1753:21 (403)
Lancaster County, Virginia, Sept. 22, 1752. Ran away form
the subscriber, at the Glebe of the said county, on the 4th
of May, a convict servant woman, named Sarah Knox, alias
Howard, alias Wilson, of a middle size, brown complexion,
has a short nose, talks broad, and said she was born in
Yorkshire, had been in the Army for several years in
Flanders, and at the Battle of Culoden, where she lost her
husband: She may pretend to be a dancing mistress, will make
a great many courtesies, is a very deceitful, bold
insinuating woman, and a great liar.
In reading the Maryland Gazette, No. 381, I find an
extract of a letter from Chester in Pennsylvania, July 13,
1752, mentioning a quack doctor by the name of Charles
Hamilton, pretending to be brought up under Dr. Green, a
noted Mountebank in England, who turns out to be a woman in
man's cloaths, and now assumes the name of Charlotte
Hamilton, a bold woman and calls herself about 28 years of
age, tho' she seems to be about 40: Thus much of the
letter. If she talks broad, I have reason to believe she is
the very servant who belongs to me.
Whoever apprehends my said servant, and has her convey'd
to me, shall have two pistoles reward, besides what the law
allows, paid by [signed] David Currie.
N.B. This Sarah Knox was imported from Whitehaven, in the
Duke of Cumberland, with other convicts; amongst whom was
one William Forrester, who, I have heard her say, was some
time with the above Dr. Green.
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