[156] "A negro man and a White Woman servant being taken up ... and brought before John Simcocke Justice in Commission for runaways Who upon examination finding they had noe lawful Passe Comitted them to Prison" ... MS. Court Rec. Penna. and Chester Co., 1681-88, p. 75; MS. New Castle Ct. Rec., Liber A, 158 (1677); MS. Minutes Ct. Quarter Sess. Bucks Co., 1684-1730, p. 138 (1690); MS. Minutes Chester Co. Courts, 1681-1697, p. 222 (1694-1695). For the continual going away of Christopher Marshall's "Girl Poll," see his Remembrancer, vol. D. [157] The following is not only typical, but is very interesting on its own account, since Abraham Lincoln was a descendent of the family mentioned. "RUN away on the 13th of _September_ last from _Abraham Lincoln_ of _Springfield_ in the County of Chester, a Negro Man named Jack, about 30 Years of Age, low Stature, speaks little or no _English_, has a Scar by the Corner of one Eye, in the Form of a V, his Teeth notched, and the Top of one on his Fore Teeth broke; He had on when he went away an old Hat, a grey Jacket partly like a Sailor's Jacket. Whoever secures the said Negro, and brings him to his Master, or to _Mordecai_ Lincoln ... shall have _Twenty Shillings_ Reward and reasonable Charges." _Pa. Gazette_, Oct. 15, 1730. [158] _Mercury_, Apr. 18, 1723; July 11, 1723; _Gazette_, May 3, 1744; Feb. 22, 1775; July 28, 1779; Jan. 17, 1782; _Packet_, Oct. 13, 1778; Aug. 3, 1779. One negro indentured himself to a currier. _Gazette_, Aug. 30, 1775. Such negroes the community was warned not to employ. _Packet_, Feb. 27, 1779. [159] The penalty was thirty shillings for every day. _Stat. at L._, IV, 64 (1725-1726). There was need for regulation from the first. _Cf. Col. Rec._, I, 117. An advertisement from Reading in _Gazette_, July 31, 1776, explains the procedure when suspects were held in jail. Such advertisements recur frequently. _Cf. Mercury_, Aug. 13, 1730 (third notice); _Gazette_, Dec. 27, 1774; _Packet_, Mar. 23, 1779. [160] For negroes carried off or who ran away at this time _cf._ MS. Miscellaneous Papers, Sept. 1, 1778; Nov. 19, 1778; Aug. 20, 1779; and others. Numbers of strange negroes were reported to be wandering around in Northumberland County. _Ibid._, Aug. 29, 1780. In 1732 the Six Nations had been asked not to harbor runaway negroes, since they were "the Support and Livelihood of their Masters, and gett them their Bread." 4 _Pa. Arch._, II, 657, 658. [161] So I judge from statistics which I have compiled from the advertisements in the newspapers.