Run away the 7th of this instant July, from Matthew Forsyth, of Chesterfield, Burlington county, an apprentice lad, named Elisha Bullingham, by trade a house-carpenter, about 16 years of age : Had on, or took with him, a half worn felt hat, old brown drugget coat, one pair leather breeches, two ozenbrigs shirts, and two pair of ozenbrigs trousers ; his hair is newly cut off, and he has his indentures with him. Whoever takes up and secures said apprentice, so that his master may have him again, shall have Forty Shillings reward, and reasonable charges, paid by me
N. B. He is supposed to be going towards New-England ; wherefore all masters of vessels, or others, are forbid to carry him off at their peril.
Whereas Margaret Simkins, wife of Daniel Simkins, of Stow creek, in the county of Cumberland, and province of West-Jersey, hath, and doth elope from time to time from her said husband, to his great damage ; these are to forewarn, all persons from trusting said Margaret on his account, for he will pay no debts of her contracting from the date hereof.
William Nelson, editor. Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State, of New Jersey (Paterson, 1895), XII, 95-600 passim.
106. Exercise of a Quaker Abolitionist's Mind (1757)
Woolman was a Quaker business man and preacher, who spent his life travelling throughout the American provinces preaching and agitating against slavery. He marks the anti-slavery agitation among the Quakers. His journal is remarkable for its simple and lucid style, as well as for its humanity. — Bibliography: Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, V , 243-245. — For other extracts on Quakers, see Contemporaries, I, Nos. 140-142, and Nos. 98, 102 above.
FEELING the exercise in relation to a visit to the Southern Provinces to increase upon me, I acquainted our Monthly Meeting therewith, and obtained their certificate. Expecting to go alone, one of my brothers who lived in Philadelphia, having some business in North Carolina, proposed going with me part of the way ; but as he had a
