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PG-P.753.038
20 Feb 1753:23 (1261)
Virginia. Lancaster County, Sept. 22, 1752. Run away from
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,
short nose, talks broad, and said she was born in Yorkshire,
had been in the army for several years, with the camp in
Flanders, and at the battle of Culloden, where she lost her
husband. She may pretend to be a dancing mistress; will
make a great many courtesies, and is a very deceitful, bold,
insinuating woman, and a great liar.
In reading of the Virginia Gazette, No. 87, 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
mens cloaths, and now assumes the name of Charlotte
Hamilton, and calls herself about 28 years of age, tho'
seems to be about 40: Thus much of the letter; and if she
talks broad, I have reason to believe that 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, 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, among whom was one
William Forrester, who, I have heard her say, was sometime
with the above Dr. Green.
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