When Drunk Is Very Bold: White Maryland Runaways, 1763-1769

by Joseph Lee Boyle

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, researchers have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080635545X
• ISBN13: 9780806355450
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"