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Description: Servant Named Mary DAWSON, Alias MURPHEY, Runs Away From Her Master, William ALEXANDER.
Date: August 29 1734Newspaper published in: Philadelphia, PA
Run away, about the 1st of June last, from the Plantation of Mr. William ALEXANDER, near the head of Elk River in Cecil County, a servant woman named Mary DAWSON, alias MURPHEY, aged about 40 years, born in Ireland, professes herself a Roman-Catholick, takes a great deal of snuff and is much given to liquor. She is of small stature and thin of body, pretends to be a school-mistress and writes a good hand. She wears a cloath colour'd callimanco gown. Whoever secures her and gives notice to the printer hereof, or to the subscriber at the above plantation, so that she be had again, shall have forty shillings as a reward and reasonable charges, paid by William ALEXANDER.