This Day was committed to the Goal of this City, a certain Thomas Gearn, _upon suspicion of being a runaway Servant_; he says that he belongs to William Withers, living in Cecil County, Maryland, and that he left his said Master about 14 or 15 Weeks ago. Said Servant is about 20 Years of Age, and says when he left his Master he had _an Iron Collar on his Neck_, but soon got it off. Whoever owns the said Thomas Gearn, is desired to come or send; pay Charges immediately, and take him away. --EPHRAIM PHILLIPS, _Goaler_. GLOUCESTER COUNTY GOAL, September 12, 1771. Taken up _on suspicion_, as a runaway servant and now confined here, a young man about 5 feet 6 inches high, marked with the small-pox, has on a blue coat, homespun shirt, and check trousers, says his name is Hugh M'Cage, and that he belongs to one William or John Miller, living near Lancaster. His master, if any he has, is desired to fetch him away, _and pay charges_; otherwise he will be _sold out_ in 3 weeks from the date hereof. RICHARD JOHNSON, _Goaler_. --_Pennsylvania Gazette_, Sept. 12, 1771. [These advertisements all relate to _White_ men. Like entries continue through the early Revolutionary days, often in the same column with flaming expressions of the spirit of political liberty, in a manner somewhat amazing to a modern reader. This one volume of newspaper extracts for the years 1770-1771, has _seventy-seven_ such advertisements of run-away White servants for New Jersey alone,--many times as many as there were for runaway Negroes.] FOOTNOTES: [117] Cf. _American History and Government_, ## 120-124. D. THE REVOLUTION XXI. PRELIMINARY PERIOD--TO 1774 On the history and subdivisions of this period, cf. _American History and Government_, ## 126-144. Many documents which might be expected for the Revolution are omitted in this volume because of the short quotations from them in _American History and Government_. 118. Sugar Act of 1764 Pickering's _Statutes at Large_, XXVI, 33-52 (4 Geo. III, c. 15). On the bearing of this and the Stamp Act (following) upon the Revolution, cf. _American History and Government_, ## 131, 132.