Lazy, Loves Strong Drink, and Is a Glutton: White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1720-1749

by Joseph Lee Boyle

As Mr. Boyle points out in his very helpful introduction, Pennsylvania received one-tenth of all male indentured servants from the 1720s through the 1740s, and about one-fifth of the women in that period. According to one authority, over 67,000 German immigrants arrived at the busy port of Philadelphia from 1720 through 1760, at least half of whom were servants. Mr. Boyle's transcription of the runaway ads, taken from seventeen different colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806357495
• ISBN13: 9780806357492
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Clearfield
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"